Life Sciences

Fluctuations Matter In Cell Suicide

destruct button of cells in a petri dish, but interestingly, not all cells respond to the suicide signal. ...

Article - Michael White - May 22 2009 - 5:41pm

Will Standards Advance Microbial Genomics?

farther, all the genes from all the sequenced strains in a species — the pan-genome for that species ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2009 - 11:49am

P.S. Maybe the Giant Squid Was Dead Already

in the pictures. It could have accrued all that damage as a result of being trapped in the net, but ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 24 2009 - 12:57am

Exorcism The Easy Way

all types of unnatural insights. 2. Avoid drugs, alcohol, illicit sex and pornography. 3. Terminate ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Nov 2 2009 - 1:19pm

More Ridiculous Squid Reporting

off a fisherman's hand. Let's all say it together now: Humboldt Squid Do Not Eat Humans! ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Nov 12 2009 - 7:55pm

Baby Cuttlefish Are Awesome

on display-- Sepia pharaonis, all the way from the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean. ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Nov 20 2009 - 1:22am

Chivalrous Squid?

explanation for the fact that 90% of all jigged Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) are females. Nigmatullin ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 14 2010 - 1:01am

Biodiversity of plants

method of reproduction. It soon outnumbers all other plants and establishes itself in that place in large ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 17 2010 - 6:35pm

I Was Not Named After This Squid (Unfortunately)

the time they're all grown up? But aside from this small error, it's a lovely read, as ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Jun 23 2011 - 4:00pm

More Unintended Fishing Consequences

but it also seems that the fishery may be directly killing sea lions: The study reviewed all previous ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Aug 5 2011 - 12:01pm