Life Sciences

James Watson, Co-discoverer Of The DNA Double Helix, Becomes First To Receive Personal Genome

providing the data, writing a consent form that covered all the risks and ethical issues involved and ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2007 - 9:19pm

Like That Manly Smell? It May Be Your Genes

cannot smell androstenone at all. Although some participants with the RT/WM genotype can smell ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2007 - 1:58am

Chaos In Food Webs: The Balance Of Nature Concept Takes A Beating

that a better understanding of all relevant processes would enable sound prediction of changes in ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2008 - 9:31am

The Genetics Of White Horses

now demonstrates that all Grey horses carry exactly the same mutation which must have been inherited ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 3:57pm

International Journal Of Systematic And Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) Puts Archive Online For Free

putting their archive up- for free. All issues of the journal dating back to volume 1, 1951 totalling over ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2008 - 1:29pm

Compulsive Overspending- Are Men Hard Wired For It?

attract mates. It all boils down, as it has for hundreds of thousands of years, to making babies.  Kruger, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2008 - 6:37pm

In The Head, Literally- Gene Study Says Obese People May Be Hard-Wired To Overeat

found six new genes that help explain body mass index and obesity, and all but one of the genes are tied ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 14 2008 - 4:00pm

What A New Fossil Tells Us About New Zealand's Watery Past

snake lineage some 250 million years ago. Rhynchocephalia once were spread all over the world, and in ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 4 2009 - 11:20pm

It's A Jungle Out There! (And By 'There' I Mean Your Skin)

is more than 100 years old, one might think scientists would have discovered all this long ago. But ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 29 2009 - 1:18pm

Half Of Texas Physicians Don't Recommend HPV Vaccine For Girls

between 6 percent and 25 percent.  "Physicians train all across the country using more or less the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2009 - 9:08pm