An open access article from PLoS Biology:
Evolution by Any Other Name: Antibiotic Resistance and Avoidance of the E-Word
Citation: Antonovics J, Abbate JL, Baker CH, Daley D, Hood ME, et al. (2007) Evolution by Any Other Name: Antibiotic Resistance and Avoidance of the E-Word. PLoS Biol 5(2): e30 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050030
Published February 13, 2007
The increase in resistance of […]

After we wrote yesterday’s post, we saw David Frum’s blog in National Review (12-17-06). He links to this intriguing article in the Washington Post, by a young woman whose “father an was anonymous sperm donor.”
Read it and weep. And think of all the children coming into the world this way to single women, or women […]

The Royal Society is seeking views on the emerging area of synthetic biology, to shape the focus of the Royal Society’s policy future work in this important area.
Synthetic biology is an emerging area of research that can broadly be described as the design and construction of novel artificial biological pathways, organisms or devices, or the […]

BACKGROUND:
The WiCell™ Research Institute, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, is seeking an experienced individual to join its team. WiCell™ is a dynamic independent research institution with a primary research focus in human embryonic stem cells, a rapidly growing research field with tremendous potential to affect our understanding of basic human […]

BBC News: Officials in Ecuador say they are worried about the discovery of foreign species on the Galapagos Islands.
Despite inspections of incoming ships and planes, local people recently found an iguana and a turtle which probably came from mainland South America.
Invasive foreign species are one of the main threats to the islands’ wildlife.
This includes giant […]

The journal Science 11 August 2006:Vol. 313. no. 5788, p. 761DOI: 10.1126/science.1126765
Douglas H. Erwin and Eric H. Davidson
Contrary to Coyne’s assertions, our paper did not advocate a macromutational innovation of phyla but considered the consequences of the introduction of developmental constraints for the evolution of gene regulatory networks based on recent empirical studies of gene […]

BBC Horizon: ‘A War on Science’ was broadcast on BBC Two at 2100GMT on Thursday, 26 January 2006
From the BBC News report “Britons unconvinced on evolution”:
Just under half of Britons accept the theory of evolution as the best description for the development of life, according to an opinion poll.
Furthermore, more than 40% of those questioned […]

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is an androgen-regulated serine protease produced by both prostate epithelial cells and prostate cancer (PCa) and is the most commonly used serum marker for cancer . Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is a protein produced by the cells of the prostate gland. Prostate-specific antigen is present in small quantities in the serum […]

A Look at Bogus “History” in Schoolbooks
Michael T. Ghiselin
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) takes a prominent place in many biology textbooks and life-science textbooks, which depict him as the author of a “theory” of evolution based upon the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Lamarck’s views, these books say, should be rejected in favor of the theory […]

Well, U. C. Davis (where I work) shows that it is both hip and dedicated to Science research with a new “Research Blog” put out by its University Communications office. It is called Egghead and its goal is:
Egghead is a blog about research by, with or related to UC Davis. Comments […]