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Biologists replicate key evolutionary step in life on Earth news

Biologists replicate key evolutionary step in life on Earth ...

More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth's surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question that has eluded evolutionary biologists. [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

The Latest Biology Articles Featured at Life-Sciences net

The Biological Sciences category of the Life-Sciences Magazine covers natural science of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. This section currently contai [...]

Posted On : Nov, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

The Latest Biology Resources Highlighted at Life-Sciences ne...

The Science Website Life-Sciences net has been established to discover and share scholarly and popular content in the basic and applied life and earth sciences including agriculture, forestry, the environmental sciences, and the health sc [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Glasgow University in bid to create 'inorganic life'

All life on earth is based on organic biology - in the form of carbon compounds - but the inorganic world is considered to be inanimate. A team from Glasgow University has demonstrated a new way of making inorganic chemical cells. The [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

In the early life of an embryo, a monster lurks

  Research based at Princeton University has revealed that newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal chaos. At the same time, scientists have discovered that embryos have acquired a mechanism to contain thi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Physics Comes to Life in DuPage Children's Museum's New Exhibit – Tubes and Tunnels Opens June 6

Physics Comes to Life in DuPage Children's Museum's New Exhi...

Bright yellow free-standing towers fill the basement workshop at DuPage Children's Museum. A plastic tube pops out of a storage container and multi-colored balls line a shelf. It’s all just another day of work for Associate Dire [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word

Life and the Cosmos, Word by Painstaking Word

Like Einstein, he is as famous for his story as for his science. At the age of 21, the British physicist Stephen Hawking was found to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease. While A.L.S. is usually fatal within fiv [...]

Posted On : May, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Research sheds light on virus life cycle

Research sheds light on virus life cycle

A group of Canadian researchers have discovered a way to cheat death. Or at least a way a cunning and common virus manages to evade the Grim Reaper. The team, from the faculty of medicine and dentistry at the University of Alberta, in Ed [...]

Posted On : Feb, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Government OKs Controversial Research Into Artificial Life F...

Man-made forms of life are just fine in Uncle Sam's book, a new federal study into synthetic biology concludes. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has just released the conclusions of months of research, d [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Government OKs Controversial Research Into Artificial Life Forms

Government OKs Controversial Research Into Artificial Life F...

Man-made forms of life are just fine in Uncle Sam's book, a new federal study into synthetic biology concludes. The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has just released the conclusions of months of research, d [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2010 | Comments : 0

The secret life of Ireland's smooth-hound sharks

The secret life of Ireland's smooth-hound sharks

Dr. Edward Farrell, who recently graduated from UCD School of Biology & Environmental Science, spent the last four years studying these unusual sharks. Under the supervision of Dr. Stefano Mariani of the SBES and Dr. Maurice Clarke o [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Hearing on synthetic life to examine breakthrough

Hearing on synthetic life to examine breakthrough

He briefed White House staffers. He explained what he was going to announce to members of Congress and their staff. And he had worked all along with the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. "We asked for an ethica [...]

Posted On : May, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Science Channel: Michael Emerson hosts Creating Synthetic Life Dr. Venter

Science Channel: Michael Emerson hosts Creating Synthetic Li...

There's "life" after Lost for actor Michael Emerson, who will narrate a compelling documentary on the Science Channel. The Science Channel is allowing you to submit questions to the man who has turned the science world on i [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Artificial life? Synthetic genes 'boot up' cell

Artificial life? Synthetic genes 'boot up' cell

They hope to use their stripped-down version of a bacterium to learn how to engineer custom-made microbes. But some groups worried the technology might be used to make biological weapons and President Barack Obama asked his bioethics a [...]

Posted On : May, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

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