Tag: biology
To fight Zika, let’s genetically modify mosquitoes – the old-fashioned way
Jeffrey Powell, Yale University
The near panic caused by the rapid spread of the Zika virus has brought new urgency to the question of how...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for work on natural DNA repair
Benjamin Burke, University of Hull
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 has been awarded jointly to Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, USA’s Paul Modrich and Turkish-born...
Life boils down to five ‘rules’ … or so says the...
By James Smith
It may sound overly simple, but just five processes can define us as animals: eating, metabolism, reproduction, dispersal and death.
They might not...
EXPLORING NATURE
New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
Advik D. Vira, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emily First, Macalester College
The Earth and the Moon may look...
