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Cuvier proposed that because each part of an organism is developmentally linked to every other part, changes in one part would result in changes to another. With this theory, he argued that a single ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Science tells the story of eleven incredible women pioneers who excelled at science, overcame ...

This week, Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize winner for sequencing the Neanderthal genome, is visiting Estonia. In an interview with ...

Dr Josef Köhrle, discusses with Lorna Rothery the urgent need for stronger actions to address the potential health risks ...

A microprotein called adipogenin appears to play a key role in helping fat cells store lipid droplets – a phenomenon that's ...

Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, are essential for all living organisms. They bind to mRNA and move along the ...

Bacteria that multiply on surfaces are a major headache in health care when they gain a foothold on, for example, implants or ...

Nobody wants harmful bacteria colonizing the surfaces of objects such as medical implants, yet we also don't want them ...