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A group of researchers have "accidentaly" found that the plant [i]Arabidopsis[/i] can pass on its ability for greater homologous recombination in case of stressed environment to its offsprings. It is quite intruiging because this increased tendency for...

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have successfuly made a two-way communication with a bunch of neurons which they (cryptically) call the [i]animats[/i]. The bunch of neurons are interfaced with a computer & live in a virtual environment. Th...

The name [i]'handicapped'[/i] is a bad-word in evolutionary biology because any phenotype which handicaps the organism gets eliminated in the long run. [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_Principle]The handicap principle[/URL], as put by Zahavi ...

Can some organism be more evolvable than others? Is there any kind of genetic capacitance built into organisms which prepares them to evolve at accelerated rates in case the environmental conditions become harsh? The above questions fall under the topic ...

I have found a report on computational biology on the internet. It is really a very detailed report which includes discussion of many aspects of this field. It has chapters on Computational Modelling, Biocomputing, Bioinformatics, etc. Click to: [URL]ht...

Now tomatoes can be put to even better use as researchers have planned to use tomatoes to deliver HIV and HBV vaccines. I would call that superbly innovative. They have genetically modified the tomatoe to contain fragments of HIV protein coat genes, so w...

The Edge Maagazine has released an issue dedicated to [b]constructive biology[/b]. The article is very well written and gives a beautiful view of where we are headed as far as our *playing ...