Trouble for Birds

21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am 6-14% of birds are likely to go extinct in the 21st century as a result of habitat loss, hunting, pet trade, and introduced animals like cats that kill...

Global Warming Creates a Stairway to Heaven

21 Dec, 2007 11:41 am Climate change is leading to increased temperatures, especially noticeable in mountains and other cooler climes. Many animals and plants,...

Did a Starchy Diet Fuel Gene Copying in Early Humans?

11 Dec, 2007 10:45 am Biologists usually think of gene mutations as the raw material for evolution. But a wide-ranging analysis of a correlation between genes and diet across...

Diet & brain evolution: another item on the menu

25 Sep, 2007 12:46 pm At some point in the distant past, there was a dramatic increase in brain size in our hominid ancestors. From approximately 2 million years ago,...

Metagenomics Meeting Report

25 Jul, 2007 12:00 pm A report on the Metagenomics 2007 meeting*. For those who do not know - metagenomics is the simultaneous sequencing of the genomes of communities of microbes...

Genome Transplantation - Coming to a Bacteria Near You

6 Jul, 2007 01:36 pm Well, I was interviewed yesterday by the AP (see the AP article here*) relating to an article in Science on Genome Transplantation by John Glass,...

Nanoscience Holds Promise For Multiple Applications

17 Jan, 2007 05:03 pm Dr. Omid Farokhzad is an attending anthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His research interests include pain medicine and cancer nanotechnology...

2-D Or Not 2-D

8 Jan, 2007 01:34 pm Over a century ago, when he invented the ubiquitous dish that bears his name, Julius Petri, a technician in Robert Koch?s laboratory,...