http://www.issuesinbiology.com/ Biology Issues en Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT info@issuesinbiology.com info@issuesinbiology.com http://www.issuesinbiology.com/a-popular-misconception-challenged/ In this fascinating article by PZ Myers in Seed Magazine, the view that humans sit atop a Mount Everest of "perfect design" is debunked with a look at a supposedly... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/a-popular-misconception-challenged/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/a-popular-misconception-challenged/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/apologises-to-any-readers/ I'd like to say sorry for my lacklustre enthusiasm as of late. I promise to post some exciting biology stories as soon as I get a chance. Stay tuned! http://www.issuesinbiology.com/apologises-to-any-readers/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/apologises-to-any-readers/ Sun, 11 May 2008 06:36:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/giant-fossil-frog-discovered/ Every so often, an animal that is either peculiar (to our tastes) or impressively large is discovered in the fossil record. The latest find of the latter variety is a... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/giant-fossil-frog-discovered/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/giant-fossil-frog-discovered/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:19:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/further-advances-in-synthetic-biology/ J. Craig Venter, the famous geneticist and biotechnology entrepreneur, is a man of vision. What does he, and other scientists of similar vision, want? Organisms that can be programmed... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/further-advances-in-synthetic-biology/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/further-advances-in-synthetic-biology/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:28:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/the-amazing-ichneumon-wasps/ Did you know that most wasps are parasites? More accurately, they're parasitoids, or organisms whose larvae are parasites. Ichneumon wasps (belonging to the superfamily Ichneumonoidea) comprise well over 80,000 species... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/the-amazing-ichneumon-wasps/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/the-amazing-ichneumon-wasps/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:16:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/why-creationism-must-be-fought/ Creationism - whether it goes by that name, or creation "science", or its most modern incarnation, "intelligent design" - is religion, not science. It has no place in the science... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/why-creationism-must-be-fought/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/why-creationism-must-be-fought/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:43:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/chaging-view-of-dinosaurs/ In the past decade or so, the study of dinosaurs has become so detailed and sophisticated that researchers are now able to tell (of particular dinosaurs) how rapidly they grew... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/chaging-view-of-dinosaurs/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/chaging-view-of-dinosaurs/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:59:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/evolution-as-a-realtime-phenomenon/ Many people harbour the misconception that evolution is something that only happened in the very distant past, and that it can only be discerned from evidence pointing to its ancient... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/evolution-as-a-realtime-phenomenon/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/evolution-as-a-realtime-phenomenon/ Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:09:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/are-the-aliens-already-here/ In this fascinating article in Scientific American, the physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies - who has a keen interest in exobiology - talks about the prospects and issues pertaining to... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/are-the-aliens-already-here/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/are-the-aliens-already-here/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:16:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/sabretooth-surprise/ From New Scientist, 1 October 2007 by Jeff Hecht: "Sporting two canine teeth the size of large kitchen knives, the North American sabre-tooth cat looked every inch a deadly predator... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/sabretooth-surprise/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/sabretooth-surprise/ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:22:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/alienlike-jaws-in-moray-eels/ From National Geographic, 5 September 2007, by Sara B. McPherson: "Much like the fearsome star of the Alien movies, moray eels have a second set of toothed jaws that drag... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/alienlike-jaws-in-moray-eels/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/alienlike-jaws-in-moray-eels/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:46:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/humananimal-hybrid-embryos-for-stem-cell-research/ From BBC News, Wednesday 5 September, 2007: "Regulators have agreed in principle to allow human-animal embryos to be created and used for research. "But scientists wanting to use hybrids will... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/humananimal-hybrid-embryos-for-stem-cell-research/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/humananimal-hybrid-embryos-for-stem-cell-research/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:59:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/a-step-closer-to-artificial-organisms/ From the J. Craig Venter Institute: "ROCKVILLE, MD -- June 28, 2007 -- Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the results of work on genome transplantation... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/a-step-closer-to-artificial-organisms/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/a-step-closer-to-artificial-organisms/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:20:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/could-this-be-what-aliens-are-like/ From PhysOrg, August 9, 2007: "The findings hint at the possibility that life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as its building blocks. They also point to a... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/could-this-be-what-aliens-are-like/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/could-this-be-what-aliens-are-like/ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:19:00 GMT http://www.issuesinbiology.com/discovery-in-fruit-flies/ From The Guardian, article by Alok Jha, science correspondent: "Scientists have found the genes of an organism fused wholesale into the genome of an entirely separate species, raising new questions... http://www.issuesinbiology.com/discovery-in-fruit-flies/#comments http://www.issuesinbiology.com/discovery-in-fruit-flies/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:02:00 GMT