Category: Life Sciences
“Make Mine Dill”
What amazes me is how the female butterflies can smell dill over great distances, and so deposit their eggs on the right plants.
How the Nucleus Guards Its Gates
Details of the nuclear pore complex, one of the largest and most complex protein systems in the cell, come into sharper focus as a team watches how it validates a messenger RNA.
An Intimate Reminder About What “Was Once Thought to Be Unnecessary ‘Junk’ DNA”
“Male mice grow ovaries instead of testes if they are missing a small region of DNA that doesn’t contain any genes,” reports the Francis Crick Institute.
The “Botched” Human Body, Revisited
As a systems architect, I’ve spent decades designing and implementing large and complex systems of information systems.
Note to Thomists: The Ear Is a Reverse Piano
James Hudspeth, of Rockefeller University, just won the Norwegian Academy of Science’s Kavli Prize in science.