Return to the Age of Biology
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By LOVELL-SMITH Mary  The Bugman, Ruud Kleinpaste, can put on a good show, but he has a serious message about biodiversity and the survival of the human race, writes MARY LOVELL-SMITH.   Imagine bandages of daddy-longlegs' webs or antibiotics made from the glands of a bull ant.
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Science & environment: Clean energy and reversing ageing among the biggest challenges of the next 50 years, say leading thinkers
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By ELEVEN, Beck  Lisa Matisoo-Smith, principal investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, was in Christchurch this week for the Evolution 2007 conference. She explains how humans might make it to the next millennium.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15  /PRNewswire/ -- The most recent edition of Molecular Systems Biology (a Nature publication), released this week, contains the results of a study discovering a "missing link" between metabolic pathways and cell reproduction.
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Scientists say humans have altered the earth right into a new geological age. Here's you're chance to help name our new era.
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By Gerrodette, Tim  HOW TO SAVE OCEANIC LIFE Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity. Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 470 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9781559636629 paper).
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Sirtris-sponsored study shows potential for the fight against aging.
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Evolution has gotten faster, and scientists think they know why: Microbes are swapping DNA from one species to another, giving the Darwinian process an added boost.
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Contrary to the movie Jurassic Park, in which scientists recreate dinosaurs from ancient DNA, genetic material more than about 50 thousand years old cannot be reliably recovered.
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One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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In the animal kingdom, a capacity for trends could mean the difference between life and death.
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How research in the wake of the French Revolution opened the door for modern medicine.
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Modern biology focuses most of its attention on how things are built and created: how a cell reads the blueprints encoded in DNA and how it takes that information to manufacture proteins in molecular factories.
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BusinessWeek Online - Seventy-five years is a mere blink of history's eye. Yet since 1929, when BusinessWeek was first published, the world has been transformed by profound innovation and technological wizardry. Three-quarters of a century ago, there were no safe and effective antibiotics, no jet travel, no commercial television, and no computers. Many died of routine infections. A five-day ocean voyage was the main way to get from America to Europe, and "wireless" meant the wood-paneled Radiola in the parlor. Since then our mastery of the physical and biological world has strengthened remarkably. ...
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The race to create life from scratch is underway. But how close are scientists to making a synthetic organism?