Life Sciences

The Heart: So Elegant, Yet So Complex

because, as we all know, the primary job of our heart is to pump blood.  If the heart starts to beat faster ...

Article - Byron Roberts - Oct 16 2009 - 2:17pm

Finding Function in Biological Circuits

quantify. It's difficult to make all of the necessary measurements, and making the measurements in one ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Nov 9 2009 - 4:25pm

Mice And Men Miles Apart In Fertility, Mickey

a lovely chart to explain how all steroid hormones including androgens are made in humans starting from ...

Article - Hatice Cullingford - Dec 8 2009 - 11:19am

Does Junk DNA Protect Against Mutation?

realize that it has been around for almost four decades, and that in all that time it has barely had any ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Dec 19 2009 - 11:17am

Sunflowers Show How Gene Duplication Generates Diversity

toward the end of the growing season when days are getting shorter. As far as biologists know, all ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2010 - 11:06am

Prospects For Understanding Complexity: A Final Rant

possibility that there are no general principles governing most or all complex systems. The awkwardness of ...

Article - Michael White - May 22 2010 - 10:59pm

The Cell Membrane And The Effect Of Omega Fatty Acids On Red Blood Cells

dystrophin. Dystrophin keeps all of these anchor proteins in a regular pattern that maintains both the ...

Article - Keith Zimmerman - Aug 11 2010 - 9:34am

What makes attitudes change: Give love a chance and feel the difference.

all. The topic of my blog is not love story but attitudes.. People must be wondering what makes change ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 12 2010 - 3:16am

Cellular Memory, Amnesia And "Inception"

pluripotent cells must have epigenetic marks to silence all lineage specific genes. Similarly, to assume the ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Oct 12 2010 - 9:51pm

Biology Is Not Flat: Exploring Cells In 3-D

continue to cause roughly 35 percent of all fatalities worldwide, killing some 14-17 million people ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2010 - 11:17am