Life Sciences

"Arctic Grape" Genetically Altered Fruit, Escapes Public Approval

at all.  The PPO mutant was found in 1962.  Nobody cared about why the grapes didn’t brown, they just ...

Article - Kevin M. Folta - Jul 16 2012 - 9:50pm

Why Mass Popularity Will Make Organic Food More Expensive

food was always a myth but we all have our irrational spots, those sweet little lies we tell ourselves, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 4 2012 - 4:01pm

The Altruistic Gene

high-cell-density genes. All this sounds good, but it raises the possibility of "cheaters" who don't ...

Article - Robert Cooper - Oct 23 2012 - 6:20pm

Researchers identify fist fighting as the key to the evolution of the human hand’s unique proportions

tests are hard to calibrate, it appears that of all the non-human primates, bonobos have a unique ...

Blog Post - Damon Isherwood - Jan 20 2013 - 8:46pm

Marker That Identifies Stomach Cancer With Different Progressions Discovered

from all types of GC. In fact, GC can be classified according to cancer morphology, behavior, ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Apr 12 2013 - 10:41am

Biological Soap Opera: 'Selfish' Gene May Undermine Genome's Police

all of us have been attacked for millennia by selfish genetic elements that want to make as many ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2013 - 5:38pm

Hypnotic Suggestion Can Generate Automatic Hallucinations- Study

experience was suggested to occur after hypnosis. Thus all the experiments were carried out while ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2013 - 9:23am

Autistic Kids Can Outgrow Difficulty With Visual Cues And Sounds

the typically developing children across all age groups and all background noise levels. "But the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2013 - 1:29pm

A Malaria Science Breakthough

rare compound class that had activities in all parasite stages, but no activity against human cells and ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2013 - 9:00am

Sensing Science? Subconscious Processing Can Aid Big Data Analysis, Say Psychologists

Kinect is available. But never before has anyone put all these components in one place to trial them ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2014 - 4:41pm