June 2007 Archives

The move effectively pushed the debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign.
Fissures in the autism community over the cause of the disorder have made their way into the Wright family, founders of the charity Autism Speaks.
A treatment that involves slipping billions of copies of a gene into the brain seemed to improve symptoms without causing side effects.
A timeline of major findings in evolutionary science....

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Predators want to kill and eat you. Parasites want to keep you alive as a cozy haven in which to multiply.

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Barry Commoner has for decades been agitating to restore ecological balance to the biosphere, whether by outlawing nuclear testing or spreading the practice of recycling.

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The practice of collecting blood samples from Amazon Indians has aroused widespread suspicions in Brazil.

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Evo-devo researchers are finding that development appears to have been one of the major forces shaping the history of life on earth....

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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.

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DNA is aiding fossil hunters in the search for human origins by approaching the search for human origins from a different angle.

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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observe bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.

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If bacterium can be encoded with messages and cockroaches can be archives, why not us?
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