Here's some interesting science:
- A commonly used medicinal leach may have been misidentified as the wrong species.
- Here is a description of the Human Variome Project, which seems more focused on mapping disease genes than doing cool population genetics. That's too bad.
- Science has an article on the benefits of undergraduate research. The most important one: to get into grad school.
- You can use molecular markers to determine that a lonesome tortoise has no reason to feel alone.
- The central nervous system is homologous across all animals.
- What is the greatest innovation? I've tackled this before.
- The NYTimes reviews mammalian X chromosomes, and it's not half bad.
- The NYTimes also discusses regrowing corals.
More like this
Recently, a number of very informative article about global food security, genetically engineered crops and the CA labeling initiative have been published. Here I provide links to a few:
John Timmer has a must read post on the coverage of science in the New York Times editorial pages.
This weeks article is again from the Book Review section of the NYTimes on April 28, 1890. Admittedly, I'm not very familiar with the history of Physiognomy so I am learning about it a little bit today as I post this.
To celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Darwin's birth, the NYTimes has a video of singing Darwin scholar, Richard Milner. Check it out.