A Nenets boy touches a mammoth carcass outside the Shemanovsky Museum in Russia. Photograph by Francis Latreille, International Mammoth Committee/National Geographic Opinion: The Case for Reviving Extinct Species There are a lot of reasons for bringing back extinct animals, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A cultured neuron with projecting dendrites studded with sites of communication between neurons, known as dendritic spines (Yale University) A 3-D reconstruction of neurons in the somatosensory cortex (credit: Yale University) Flip of a single molecular switch makes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
March 06, 2013 “Evolution Is Not Over” –New Insights Into the Genetic Code Swiss Researchers are looking several billion years back in time, when life on Earth was just beginning to examine how a primitive protein was able to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pictures: Extinct Species That Could Be Brought Back Woolly Mammoth Photograph by Jonathan S. Blair, National Geographic A museum worker inspects a replica of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), a species that went extinct 3,000 to 10,000 years ago. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal female. Photograph by Joe McNally, National Geographic Return of the Neanderthals Should scientists seek to clone our ancient hominid cousins? Virginia Hughes for National Geographic News Published March 6, 2013 For now, the Neanderthal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Magnetogenetics: A new technique to control the inner workings of human cells and build neural circuits By John Hewitt on March 6, 2013 at 9:46 am In the brain, the complex circuits behind our cognition largely construct themselves. In […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
MAN AND MACHINE: Jonathan Rothberg says his genome scanner will revolutionize medicine. Photo: David Yellen The Gene Machine and Me Ion Torrent’s chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine By ELIZA STRICKLAND / MARCH 2013 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Len Rosen’s blog › Agriculture Update: Notes from the GMO Battlefront Posted on February 19, 2013 Subject(s): Agriculture The GMO (genetically modified organism) FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) needs to be addressed because we humans are at a cross roads in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Canned tomato labels. lgsinden We broke the tomato, and we’re using science to fix it We’ve bred tomatoes for high productivity with no regard for their taste. by John Timmer – Feb 19 2013, 8:30am EST Thanks to decades of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“We already knew that myopia—or short-sightedness—tends to run in families, but until now we knew little about the genetic causes,” says Chris Hammond, a professor at King’s College London. (Credit: “eye exam chart” via Shutterstock) HEALTH & MEDICINE – Posted […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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