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Genetic modification has so far mainly been confined to developing crops that tolerate herbicides and resist pests. It has done little to increase yields Green shoots of hope: apricot seedlings in the lab at Zaiger’s Genetics in Modesto, California Photo: ALAMY
Some 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Middle East’s fertile crescent, happenstance 
A Boston psychiatrist wants the brain of slain marathon bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev studied like a crime scene to look for evidence that his boxing career may have left him brain damaged and possibly prone to depression and aggression. Tsarnaev, the eldest of two sibling suspects in the April 15 attacks that killed three 
The Pentagon’s loftiest research agency wants to add a little love to national security. Sort of. In a new request for research proposals, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking investigators to develop refined techniques for the measurement of oxytocin — a neurohormone implicated in myriad human behaviors, but best 
X-Ray of “Sirius Being” While the DNA reportedly found in this being has no framework to tie it to anything terrestrial does that mean it is from another world or dimension? or could it simply (but still astoundingly) be an undiscovered humanoid species from earth’s past? The back story of this “being” was featured 
The emerging field of “synthetic biology” holds great promise for producing new medicines, cleaning up the environment, and providing alternative energy sources and other benefits, but the U.S. government needs to take precautions to ensure that laboratory-made microbes do not cause unexpected catastrophes, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has 
Researchers have developed bio-mimetic nanosponges that could prove an effective way of dealing with antibiotic-resistant infections. Each nanosponge is a tiny polymer-based particle measuring 85nm (around one 300,000th of an inch) across that’s been wrapped in a red blood cell membrane. When scientists injected the material into mice, toxic proteins attached themselves to the 
Never mind aliens in outer space. Some scientists believe we may be sharing the planet with ‘weird’ lifeforms that are so different from our own they’re invisible to us Animal figures cut into desert varnish by Native Americans in Utah. Photograph: BWAC Images/Alamy Across the world’s great deserts, 
New Orleans, LA – “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything 
It was an Ice Age squirrel’s treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species. 
Two American researchers whose efforts to deliberately re-engineer the H5N1 avian flu virus to be more virulent and deadly to humans are now asking that a government-advised moratorium on their controversial research be lifted. According to TIME, the duo alleges that precise details about how it developed the deadly flu strain must be made public, 
For thousands of years, our thirst for the legendary Fountain of Youth has been nearly as strong as our propensity for perpetuating the myth. However, over the last 20 years, the fertile headwaters of molecular biology have been pumping out anything but folklore. Not only have these waters yielded a precipitous stretch in understanding 
Scientists drilling in Lake Whillans, a remote body of water buried 2,600 feet below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, have discovered evidence of living bacteria. The water samples were first removed from the ice sheet at 6:20am on Monday, January 28, by the U.S. research team Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling, or 
A Harvard scientist has said it would be possible to clone a Neanderthal baby from ancient DNA if he could find a woman willing to act as a surrogate. The process would not be legal in many countries and would involve using DNA extracted from fossils. George Church, a genetics professor 
For the first time ever, the legendary giant squid was filmed in its natural habitat at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. See amazing footage onDiscovery Channel’s ”Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real” on Sunday, Jan. 27 at 8/7c as the season finale of Curiosity. Scientists worked with broadcasters at Discovery 
Genetically altered babies born Mitochondria contain genes outside the cell’s nucleus By BBC News Online science editor Dr David WhitehouseScientists have confirmed that the first genetically altered humans have been born and are healthy. Up to 30 such children have been born – 15 of them 
Scientists analyzing Australian rocks have discovered traces of bacteria that lived a record-breaking 3.49 billion years ago, a mere billion years after Earth formed. If the find withstands the scrutiny that inevitably faces claims of fossils this old, it could move scientists one step closer to understanding the first chapters of life on Earth. The 
It’s difficult to not be pessimistic when considering humanity’s future prospects. Many people would agree that it’s more likely than not that we’ll eventually do ourselves in. And in fact, some astrobiologists theorize that all advanced civilizations hit the same insurmountable developmental wall we have. They call it the Great Filter. It’s a notion that’s 
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor — man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the 
Scientists have found life in an Antarctic lake that was sealed off from the outside world by a thick sheet of ice several thousands of years ago. Brine collected from boreholes drilled into Lake Vida contains scores of bacteria that clung on to life despite making their home in one of harshest environments on 
It was a surreal and somewhat ghostly sight: that of perhaps 50,000 starfish that somehow had come ashore overnight, en masse, and perished on a secluded beach in Ireland. The Belfast Telegraph reports that harsh weather might have been responsible for last week’s peculiar and mysterious event, on Lissadell Beach. Bill Crowe, |
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