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Simple membranes could have allowed nutrients to pass into primitive cells
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A puzzle over fewer boy births -- chicagotribune.com
This community, surrounded by dozens of pollution-spewing chemical plants, is an especially extreme example of a puzzling phenomenon playing out around world, in countries as diverse as the United States, Sweden and Japan.
Though more boys are being born
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Cancer stem cells created from skin cells in lab
researchers at the School of Medicine have turned normal skin cells into cancer stem cells, a step that will make these naturally rare cells easier to study.
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Evolution In The Classroom: 'Evolution Machine' Lets Students See It Happen
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iBOL - Bringing Genomics to Biodiversity
The International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) is based on a simple, but powerful premise. It argues that sequence diversity in short, standardized gene regions (i.e. DNA barcodes) can provide a sophisticated tool for both the identification of known sp
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BBC NEWS | Health | Three-parent embryo formed in lab
Scientists believe they have made a potential breakthrough in the treatment of serious disease by creating a human embryo with three separate parents.
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Shubin’s basic proposition is encapsulated in what he calls the biological “law of everything”: that every living thing on the planet has parents. This innocuous, quite banal statement conceals a great profundity: that no structure in the living wor
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Technology Review: Next Steps for Stem Cells
New methods to reprogram adult cells could create novel models of disease.
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Bred in the Bone - The New York Times > Science > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 8
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inner life of a cell
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The Emergence of a Strange and Novel Pathogen
However, in this case, because the devils are all so genetically alike, the immune system thinks the tumor cells are simply a normal part of the body--so they can proliferate unchecked.
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Belief and Biology
Robert Sapolsky Receives "Emperor Has No Clothes" Award
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NOVA Online | 18 Ways to Make a Baby | How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis (Flash)
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LRB | Jerry Fodor: Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings
...we are all a little crazy, and for reasons that Darwin’s theory of evolution is alleged to reveal. What’s wrong with us is that the kind of mind we have wasn’t evolved to cope with the kind of world that we live in.
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Bizarre Gender-Bender Bugs Baffle Scientists | LiveScience
Scientists have discovered a real gender-bender of a bug, a species in which most females impersonate males.
Past research had already revealed the male bugs possessed fake female genitalia.
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