Many students have difficulty understanding and explaining how evolution operates. In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning ...

Biology - Evolution

Jun 15, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 17

(Phys.org) —The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that genes cannot be patented. A recent CSU-led study sheds light on the impacts of the case. ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 14, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org) —A Cornell study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 12, 2013 3.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

Individuals of a particular species generally differ from one another. We are clearly most adept at recognizing members of our own species, although dog and cat owners will be ready to confirm that their ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 11, 2013 not rated yet 0

The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 04, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have confirmed by using DNA molecular markers that the Ulmus laevis species is native in the Iberian Peninsula.

Biology - Ecology

May 30, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —India's tigers are facing extinction owing to a collapse in the variety of their mating partners, according to new research carried out by scientists at Cardiff University.

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 not rated yet 3 |

These days, phylogeneticists – experts who painstakingly map the complex branches of the tree of life – suffer from an embarrassment of riches. The genomics revolution has given them mountains of DNA ...

Biology - Evolution

May 15, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org) —Researchers in Britain have announced the development of a new strain of wheat that early reports suggest produce 30 percent greater yields than those currently in use.

Biology - Biotechnology

May 14, 2013 5 / 5 (9) 0 |

Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle and the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg have jointly developed a revolutionary method to analyse the genomes of ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 13, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org) —As the U.S. Supreme Court moves closer to a decision this summer in the landmark gene patent case against Myriad Genetics, a study, led by Colorado State University, is shedding light on what ...

Biology - Biotechnology

May 10, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org) —The maths underpinning Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain how the universe may be 'designed' to make black holes.

Physics - General Physics

May 06, 2013 3.8 / 5 (38) 19 |

Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology at the Helsinki University and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have developed the first three-dimensional simulation of the evolution of morphology by integrating ...

Biology - Evolution

May 02, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

The Joint International Turtle Genomes Consortium, led by investigators from RIKEN, BGI, and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, has completed the genome sequencing of soft-shell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) and gr ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 28, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and elsewhere have decoded the genome of the platyfish, a cousin of the guppy and a popular choice for home aquariums. Among scientists, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |