Life Sciences

Why I Love Surrounding Myself With Venomous Critters

Today, exochemistry is all around us: organisms of all kinds use chemicals to send signals to one ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 10 2015 - 4:00pm

No Random Walk: Ants Meander Systematically

colony into the lab, where they could easily track all ants automatically and under constant conditions. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2023 - 6:31am

Bioprinting Pancreatic Tissues

function.  All models and designs from the project are freely available on University of Pittsburgh Professor ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2025 - 5:01am

Wanted: Used Car Salesman- Must Have 2D:4D Ratio Less Than.9

  OK, now this all sound extremely sexist and all, and for that I apologize- but really, it seems ...

Article - Matt MacManes - Jul 25 2007 - 10:11am

Mouse Farm

illustrations are all by Bernette Bohen, young wife of Dr Law, another Jax eminence. I note this because anyone ...

Article - Greg Critser - Mar 2 2007 - 1:25am

Shaping The Artistic Symmetry Of Cells

way off the middle?" Cell division is an ancient process. All multicellular organisms have ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2008 - 8:48am

Magnetic Crystals Are A 'Bacterial Compass', Say Researchers

methods were inaccurate. New calculations prove that all known magnetosomes do posses the right magnetic ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2008 - 9:47pm

Off-the-shelf synthetic biology parts are a pipe dream

evolution is a powerful tool in the synthetic biology toolkit. Instead of one-size-fits-all parts that ...

Blog Post - Michael White - May 6 2009 - 12:36pm

It Would Take A Long Time to Swim From Chile to California

northern hemisphere population--not all the way from Peru or Chile. Incidentally, Noyo Harbor is in Fort ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Oct 21 2009 - 12:00am

The winners of the evolution contest

effects of ageing, all these “defects” which seem inherent to human nature, and we can’t help wondering ...

Blog Post - Emmanuelle Savigny - Oct 30 2009 - 4:31am