June 30, 2007
The move effectively pushed the debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign.
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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.
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A treatment that involves slipping billions of copies of a gene into the brain seemed to improve symptoms without causing side effects.
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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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