Guest post by Thomas Clements SCRAMBLE is a new form of directed evolution pioneered in Sc 2.0, an entirely synthetic…
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post I am known by many names, but it’s all SCRAMBLEdRead more
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post Book review: ‘A Crack in Creation.’ Jennifer Doudna’s journey of discoveryRead more
Famed CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna, along with a past student Samuel Sternberg (starting his own lab in at Columbia University), wrote an…
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post Open science: Sharing is caring, but is privacy theft? by David Mehler and Kevin WeinerRead more
Open Science (OS) is a movement toward increased sharing among scientists of their data, their materials, their computer code, their papers, and…
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post Snakes. Why did it have to be giant snakes?Read more
Snakes are beautiful and bizarre animals. Limbless vertebrates, they have been around for more than 150 million years, and occupy almost every…
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Climate Change Behavioral Flexibility May Help Some Animals Deal with a Changing ClimateRead more
A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners has identified the circumstances in which some animals change their behaviors…
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post Food Evolution documentary looks at science, money, and fake news around GMOsRead more
Food Evolution aims to take a look at the science underlying the heated rhetoric of the GMO debate. Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy…
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post Can Alzheimer’s disease steal one’s consciousness?Read more
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been characterized as a “complete loss of self.” Early on when memory begins to fade, the victim has…
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post The (Now Older) Age of Fishes: New bony fish from the Silurian of ChinaRead more
For all of the love and popularity that the “Age of Dinosaurs” receives, we wouldn’t be where we are without evolutionary innovations…
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post Brain-computer interface restores communication to the completely locked-inRead more
Imagine an existence without the ability to communicate. You cannot speak, gesture or even blink an eye. All means to share your…
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Climate Change Changing Our Attitudes Towards Invasive “Alien” SpeciesRead more
Above, zebra mussels on a native mussel; it has been estimated that invasive zebra mussels have cost Canada and the United States…
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Biodiversity A day in the park–tracking mercury with dragonfly larvaeRead more
Mercury is a toxic element that can adversely impact human and wildlife health. And while it can be found as an introduced…
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post Ketones to combat Alzheimer’s diseaseRead more
Despite decades of efforts to develop a drug that prevents or cures Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most prevalent form of dementia afflicting…