Nautilus
Animals who are both male and female offer insight into evolutionary development
A very odd creature flitted past friends James Adams and Irving Finkelstein—a swallowtail unlike any they had ever seen. Its ...
Mom’s genes and environment affect gender of kids
Families are especially complex: Cause and effect are hard to disentangle in the bubbling cauldron that is a household. There ...
Replacement arteries working in human patients
Even in the 1990s, the procedure seemed primitive. Laura Niklason watched it repeatedly as a medical resident at Boston’s Massachusetts ...
The cross-species merger that made life as we know it possible
The transition from the classic prokaryotic, nucleus-free model to the deluxe eukaryotic one is arguably the most important event in ...
Humans out-engineer evolution in the age of synthetic biology
We've been tweaking and tinkering with DNA for thousands of years, but we're just reaching a time when humans, more ...
How to create alien life? Use human DNA, of course
Five decades after cracking the genetic code, scientists have discovered how to re-code DNA cells and build new proteins. The ...
Genes that won the fame game
Fame is something that sticks to someone or something, a quality earned or gained for no reason at all. It ...
