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Handy gene kit was held in reserve.
- 2007-05-29
Byline: Jeff Hecht May 29, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scientists have discovered that arm fins of the paddlefish Polyodon developed in two phases. Marcus Davis and colleagues at the University of Chicago analysed Hox genes in the paddlefish. They found...
Tropics are cradle, museum of life: study
- 2006-10-05
WASHINGTON AFP — The tropics are at once the cradle and museum of much of the world's biodiversity, said a study, which pointed up the need to preserve rain forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems. Paleontologists and biologists at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Chicago showed that...
Sexual orientation
- 2006-05-05
There is an ongoing effort to determine whether sexual orientation is hard-wired. Scientists at the University of Chicago have used high-tech imaging to confirm that the hypothalamus the sex center in the brain functions differently in gay men than heterosexual men. There is less and less evidence that homosexuality is...
Why we aren't like our cousins.
- 2006-03-20
Mar 20, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- It has been suggested that the differences between humans and primates are determined by genetic activity. University of Chicago human geneticist Yoav...
Tropical Vision in an Age of Empire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- 2006-01-01
Tropical Vision in an Age of Empire Felix Driver and Luciana Martina (eds.) University of Chicago Press $25 What are the tropics? How did the Western explorers, scientists and imperialists react to them, describe them, and even invent them? This collection...
News Briefs.(http://img.jgi.doe.gov/)(survey on-who's doing the most innovative and important research in the fields of human genetics and nanotechnology)(Integrated Microbial Genomes from Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute)(University of Chicago
- 2005-07-01
By Elizabeth Tolchin, News Editor Survey of Top Scientists for Study of Research Innovation Elizabeth Tolchin Who's doing the most innovative and important research in the fields of human genetics and...
Notes from the editors
- 2005-06-01
Andre Gunder Frank, one of the leading radical social scientists of the late twentieth century and a long-time friend and contributor to Monthly Review and Monthly Review Press, died on April 23, 2005, at age seventy-six. Frank known to his friends as Gunder was born in Berlin on February...
Edward Albert Shils
- 2005-01-01
Edward Albert Shils Edward Albert Shils (1911-1995), American sociologist, studied the sociology of culture, with special attention to the role of ideology in culture and the part played by intellectuals in the formation and shaping of ideology. He also studied the sociology of science, of higher education, and of literature,...
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.(Grants & Contracts)(Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes)(Brief Article)
- 2004-09-21
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES NIAID has awarded an $18 million contract to Computation Institute to create a National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center to help scientists accelerate research into the biology and evolution of deadly microorganisms and develop methods to control them. The...
Popular science Suburban native and well-known dinosaur hunter wants to reach more people, especially underachieving students.(News)
- 2004-03-08
Byline: Susan Stevens Daily Herald Staff Writer In Paul Sereno's imagination, dinosaur bones grow up among the ferns, an Eoraptor melts like a Salvador Dali painting and a giant ribcage hovers over a field of azaleas. The dose of whimsy at the...
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