Biology
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Biology
Odilon Redon’s Dark Musings on Evolution
Imagine you are Adam or Eve in the Garden of Eden in a state of blissfully ignorant grace. You reach…
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Art of the Gaps 2: Extraterrestrial Life?
Happy New Year! Part of being human is having the drive to question the mysteries of the world around us.…
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Art of the Gaps: What is the origin of life on Earth?
Part of being human is having the drive to question the mysteries of the world around us. That questioning has…
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Mad Art Cast: Blood Brain and Chick Tracts
This week A’s back on the ‘cast and we’re talking about an amazing bit of artistry in science (breaking the…
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Yet another high profile paper about yet another epigenome that says the same thing, yet again.
A recent study developed a new way of probing the genome for “accessible” sites, and found the same things that…
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The stars in our cells
A relatively recent study showed that transcription factors tend to hang out in specific areas of the nucleus, clustering like…
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Caveman genes — what our shared history with Denisovans means
A recent article in Nature determines, fairly conclusively, that a certain variant of a certain gene which allows Tibetans to…
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Not-So-Jurassic Park
Here’s a question for you: What do you get when you put a mammoth genome into an elephant egg? Is…
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