Team Hopeful in Its Effort to Recreate Primal Life
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Scientists believe that they have reconstructed the pivotal event that created the one-celled organism from which all animals and plants are descended.
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Humanoid devices will be used to encourage interest in science and technology.
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A leading human genome scientist says he has taken a major step towards creating life from scratch in the lab.
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A business trust is looking at sites for a Christian showplace to challenge the theory of evolution
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Scientists trying to create life are more like engineers than biologists. They want to make stuff rather than learn about life.
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Scientists have deciphered the process one species of bacteria uses to "resurrect" its genetic material after being blasted by radiation or parched by lack of water.
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An ambitious two-year effort aims to understand the vital, shifting dynamics of ice, oceans and life at the ends of the earth.
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Researchers think they have found the modern whaleâs closest evolutionary ancestor.
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Global warming and not a giant asteroid may have nearly wiped out life on Earth some 250 million years ago, an international team of scientists said on Thursday.
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An international team of scientists has found life on a Norwegian island.  No surprises there, but the successful field test of a collection of life-detection instruments may be a stepping stone for future endeavors to sniff out life on Mars.
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Scientists have taken a first step toward making synthetic life by transferring genetic material from one bacterium into another, transforming the second microbe into a copy of the first.
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Scientists are chomping at the bit for tomorrow&#39;s Earthly return of a sample capsule from NASA&#39;s Genesis spacecraft, hoping the star stuff it carries will help answer questions on the origins of the solar system and we who live in it.
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Scientists say the results represent a new stage in synthetic biology.
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In a big step toward a long-sought goal, three teams of scientists say they've produced the equivalent of embryonic stem cells, at least in mice, without taking the controversial step of destroying embryos.
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Scientists are now optimistic some valuable data can be salvaged from the wrecked capsule of the solar mission.
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Nasa scientists have recovered some intact materials from the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule that crashed in the Utah desert this week and are hopeful the mission to gather solar atoms may be salvaged.
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Researchers say a new programme could help create a DNA database of all life on Earth, ever.