Word: geneses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
It was worth the wait: Beyond the expected developments, there were also a few surprises in the dueling teams' new studies - which are scheduled to be published later this week, appropriately enough, in dueling science journals ("Nature" and "Science," respectively). It turns out that men's genes, for example, are...
It's also come to light that humans have far fewer genes than was previously thought. In fact, in spite of our sense of evolutionary preeminence and structural complexity, the human body only has twice as many genes as a common fruit fly. Not exactly awe-inspiring, is it?
That's just fine with some outside the scientific community, who fear the downside of genetic mapping may overshadow its benefits. If we're determined to unravel the mystery of genetic coding, aren't we opening a Pandora's box of ethical conundrums? If we know which genes lead to...
In the late 1980s, after he ?became a full professor of plant science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ingo Potrykus started to think about using genetic engineering to improve the nutritional qualities of rice. Of some 3 billion people who depend on rice as their major staple, around...
As the Bushes moved into the Blue Room for coffee, the awkwardness that usually attends these rituals was missing. Bush and Clinton have little in common--not intellectual curiosity, not ideology, not attention span. But in December, when George W. Bush with his sports-jock patter made his first postelection...