Life Sciences

Liquid Crystal Phases Of DNA Molecules Suggest New Scenario For First Life On Earth

noncomplementary DNA segments, said Clark. The results indicated that essentially all of the complementary DNA bits ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2007 - 11:12am

Making Cavity-Causing Bacteria 'Self-Destruct'

work suggests that FabM or one of its relatives may also help all Streptococci (strep) and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2008 - 12:16pm

Roundworms Not So Dumb: Parasite Makes Host Ant Look Like A Juicy, Red Berry

and all- so that the bird can spread the parasite in its feces. The fruit-eating birds' ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2008 - 5:50pm

Brain Imaging Study Shows Men Really Do Enjoy Video Games More Than Women

depending on what they did with the balls. Reiss said all participants quickly learned the point of the ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2008 - 3:10pm

Plug-And-Play Inside Your Cells: Signals And Side Effects

cAMP, which can diffuse through the cell and activate all of the PKA around. If one active receptor ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 24 2008 - 5:53pm

Study: Prefrontal Cortex In Jazz Musicians Winds Down When Improvising

same audio background, but they were free to spontaneously play whatever notes they wished. All of this ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2008 - 12:34am

Neuroscience Study Shows Flies Have 'Language'

environment with fast and naturally changing velocity profiles, the fly starts using all the bandwidth ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2008 - 6:19pm

Personalized Genetic Testing: Starting Down The Rabbit Hole

was analyzed at all. The agency concluded that the firms “mislead consumers by making predictions that ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 10 2008 - 9:10am

The Secret Life Of Embryonic Stem Cells

take over full responsibility for developing all the tissues of the fetus. With this protocol, Nagy and ...

Article - Lee Silver - May 25 2008 - 9:18pm

The Complex Synapses That Drove Brain Evolution

simple model for understanding the origins and diversity of brains and behaviour in all species" ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2008 - 12:48pm