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Personalised Medicine Moving Closer

Saturday, May 1st, 2010 - 09:04:29 - Anuradha Menon

One of the great hopes arising from the project to unravel the human genome was for medical treatments tailored to people's individual genetic...

Southpaws: The Evolution Of Handedness

Friday, April 30th, 2010 - 14:40:21 - Anuradha Menon

Creatures across the animal kingdom - including mammals, birds, fish and invertebrates - refer to use one paw, eye or even antenna for certain tasks...

Caring Chimps Mourn The Death Of A Loved One

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 - 10:37:31 - Anuradha Menon

Anyone who has peered into the eyes of a chimpanzee knows that our closest relatives in the animal kingdom are intelligent and thoughtful creatures...

Maxed out: How High Can You Go?

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 - 12:00:12 - Anuradha Menon

Altitude has strange effects on the body, and it's mostly down to the reduced pressure of oxygen in the air. Cells need oxygen in order to survive...

First Molars Provide Insight Into Evolution

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 - 17:49:48 - Ehud Rattner

The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by two scientists at Arizona State University's...

Alcoholic Flies Show Human-like Desperation

Saturday, December 12th, 2009 - 10:01:01 - Anuradha Menon

After scientists had gotten them hooked on alcohol, fruit flies—apparently desperate for a buzz—drank even repulsive concoctions and relapsed after...

Basic Human Cell Structure
Monday, November 30th, 2009
The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all known living organisms. It is the smallest unit of life that is...

The Evidence Of Evolution
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Evolution is testable: human and ape chromosome numbers. Theories are crucial to science because they provide a coherent...

Speed Limit To The Pace of Evolution

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 - 19:31:05 - Ehud Rattner

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a theoretical model that informs the understanding of evolution and determines how...