Veronique Greenwood
Brainless hydras can tell us a lot about the significance of sleep
It does not have a brain, or even much of a nervous system. And yet, new research shows, it sleeps ...
Harnessing biological clocks to boost fight against disease, parasites
[Evolutionary parasitologist Sarah] Reece and other scientists are exploring an idea that is making waves in biology: If the body ...
How CRISPR is speeding up animal research
Fifteen years ago or so, when Helen Sang, a geneticist at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, and her colleagues wanted to ...
Up all night? Night owls may share genetic mutation
Some people, no matter what they do, simply cannot fall asleep until the wee hours...These night owls may have a ...
Mosquitoes evolving resistance to nets designed to quash spread of malaria
In the last ten years or so, more than a billion insecticide-treated bed nets have been distributed across the world ...
Differences in brain wiring could explain why some people learn languages quicker
Babies' ability to soak up language makes them the envy of adult learners everywhere. Still, some grown-ups can acquire new ...
Sources of inherited diseases may emerge with map of complex gene interactions
In yeast, only one in five genes is essential...however, if a pair of nonessential genes is removed—sometimes, death comes quickly ...
Using CRISPR to drive genes through a population likely to lead to ‘resistance’ in organisms
We might finally be able to beat evolution at its own game. Using the gene editing tool CRISPR...biologists can arrange ...
DNA phenotyping revolutionizing forensics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On the morning of ...
Genes’ mechanisms for protein production called into question
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The millimeter-long roundworm Caenorhabditis ...
Your housemate may be altering your immune system
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our veins are swimming ...
Researcher probes why viruses remain genetically stable for some time, then rapidly mutate
Unlike most kids, Katia Koelle’s first love was math, a passion she picked up from enthusiastic instructors. “One of my ...
Mysteries of autism and schizophrenia unlocked by new cell study techniques
When Feng Zhang was in graduate school, he discovered that the tools for splicing new genes into living cells were ...
Sequencing genomes of entire microcosmic ecosystems
Viruses are the most abundant entities on the planet—and among the most mysterious. Mya Breitbart, a microbial ecologist at the ...
