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Survival of the fittest: even cancer cells follow the laws of evolution
Scientists from The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton and the University of California discovered that the underlying process in tumor formation is the same as for life itself-evolution.   view more (2008-08-04)

New piece in the jigsaw puzzle of human origins
In an article in today's Nature, Uppsala researcher Martin Brazeau describes the skull and jaws of a fish that lived about 410 million years ago. The study may give important clues to the origin of jawed vertebrates, and thus ultimately our own evolution.   view more (2009-01-16)

South Asian people are under-represented in clinical trials
People of South Asian ethnic origin are underrepresented in clinical trials, finds a study in this week’s BMJ.   view more (2003-06-04)

Do we need a paradigm change? Disputing coevolution in herbivorous insects
Coleoptera (beetles) are one of the most successful groups of organisms on Earth. Their success in evolutionary terms is recognised by their extreme adaptive diversity (occupying almost every possible ecological niche) and their longevity (fossils from the Palaeozoic, 280 million years ago).   view more (2007-04-11)

New findings on the birth of the solar system
A team of international astrophysicists, including Dr Maria Lugaro from Monash University, has discovered a new explanation for the early composition of our solar system.   view more (2009-07-20)

AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access
To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution.   view more (2009-11-09)

New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought
New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, not during the 1930s, as previously reported.   view more (2008-10-02)

Darwin's greatest challenge tackled: the mystery of eye evolution
When Darwin's skeptics attack his theory of evolution, they often focus on the eye. Darwin himself confessed that it was "absurd" to propose that the human eye evolved through spontaneous mutation and natural selection. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have now tackled Darwin's major challenge in an... view more... (2004-10-26)

Diamonds from outer space — Geologists discover origin of Earth's mysterious black diamonds
If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than interstellar space.   view more (2007-01-10)

Darwin and the world's first ecological experiment
Scientists examining the work that influenced Charles Darwin have rediscovered the details of what may be the world's first ecological experiment. Darwin, in his Origin of Species of 1859, referred to an experiment investigating the biology of grassland plants that showed how a greater diversity of grasses planted in experimental plots was... view more... (2002-01-21)

Superconductivity: Which one of these is not like the other?
Superconductivity appears to rely on very different mechanisms in two varieties of iron-based superconductors.    view more (2009-07-13)

New clues to the genetic of epilepsy
Two specific areas in chromosome 7 and chromosome 16 have been associated with photosensitivity, an epilepsy-related trait, by a team of European scientists in the January issue of Human Molecular Genetics. Photosensitivity or photoparoxysmal response (PPR) is associated with the most common epilepsy of genetic origin -Idiopathic Generalised... view more... (2005-01-04)

Milwaukee swine flu testing results published
Researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee published the first initial paper describing the Milwaukee prevalence of the largest outbreak of novel swine origin influenza virus (S-OIV) in America.   view more (2009-06-16)

Methane-Belching Bugs Inspire a New Theory of the Origin of Life on Earth
Two laboratories at Penn State set out to show how an obscure undersea microbe metabolizes carbon monoxide into methane and vinegar.   view more (2006-05-15)

Evolutionary origin of bacterial chromosomes revealed
Researchers have unveiled the evolutionary origin of the different chromosomal architectures found in three species of Agrobacterium.   view more (2009-03-27)

AAAS plenary: Intrepid explorers and the search for the origin of species
Evolution, we know, is the guiding thread of biology and explains life as we know it. But how that big idea was inspired and expanded over two centuries of natural history is really a tale of the adventures of a handful of intrepid scientists whose derring-do, perseverance and intellectual curiosity sparked a revolution that forever changed our... view more... (2009-02-13)

OECD develops policy recommendations for a new generation of large projects in astronomy
The OECD Global Science Forum has developed findings and recommendations regarding future large projects in astronomy. Some of the recommendations are directed towards the international scientific community, others pertain more to the work of government funding agencies. Among the conclusions are: the need for a globally-coordinated scientific... view more... (2004-10-15)

New hypothesis for origin of life proposed
Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis.   view more (2007-12-05)

Susceptibility To Psychotic Illness In Prader Willi Syndrome Linked To Gene On Chromosome 15 (p 135)
Authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET-which investigated the occurrence of severe psychotic illness in adults with Prader Willi syndrome-suggest that susceptibility to psychotic illness in the general population could be influenced by genetic abnormalities on chromosome 15.   view more (2002-01-11)

Dinsaurrific!
The most comprehensive picture yet of how dinosaurs evolved has been produced by a team at Bristol University. More than 1,000 species of dinosaurs have been named since the first skeletons were dug up in the 19th century, and unravelling their patterns of evolution has been a major area of research. Since 1980, over 150 evolutionary trees of... view more... (2002-04-26)
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