Evolutionary biologists looking into the evolutionary rates and patterns of Adelie penguins have recently determined that the animals appear to be evolving at a much faster pace than previously calculated. In the research, scientists looked at mitochondrial DNA samples collected from penguins currently living in rook... |
18 November 2009
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Intelligent Design proponents will need a lot of tinkering with logic and reason to get past the new finds made by an international team of researchers, including scientists from the Monash University. The new paper makes a hole right in the middle of ID arguments, which hold that molecular machines inside living cel... |
15 September 2009
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The human body is, indeed, one of the most mysterious and best put together constructs in the world, but its amazing complexity and functions must not lead people to believe that it is the work of a higher power. For example, Intelligent Design (ID) proponents have said for a long time that one of their main argument... |
28 August 2009
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Scientists at the prestigious Swedish medical university the Karolinska Institutet have recently made an astounding find related the phenomenon of premature aging, which has thus far eluded plausible explanations. The experts managed to trace the origins of this condition to proteins that malfunction when they are sy... |
6 August 2009
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Cyclorana alboguttata (the burrowing frog) is one of the least known animals in the world. And certainly the fact that it's a frog doesn't help it all that much either. However, most of you would be surprised to learn that the vertebrate can do only what bacteria have been known to be capable of, which ... |
29 June 2009
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Sexual reproduction may be a lot of fun, but it's far from being perfect when it comes to combining the genetic material of the parents, sometimes leading to incurable genetic diseases. However, genetically engineered children could literally be born perfect in a couple of years in the UK, by replacing defective... |
5 June 2008
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Of course, it was not Gitche Manitou their creator. All the Red Skins, from those of North America to those of South America, came from Asia. A new DNA study published in the journal "PLoS One" shows that 6 women founded about 95% of the populations of the modern Native Americans, 20,000 years ago."The finding does n... |
14 March 2008
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Common knowledge says that a child has two parents. But what about three biological parents? A team at the Newcastle University has created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man, a technology that one day could be a therapy for couples, for getting kids free of genetic diseases. Still, these embryos a... |
6 February 2008
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Mitochondria are the little fabrics of energy for the cell, where sugars and fats are burned, resulting energy, water and carbon dioxide. They have their own DNA, distinct from the nuclear one and mutations in the mitochondrial DNA have resulted to be one of the main causes of low sperm count and mobility in humans.B... |
20 September 2007
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