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The Synthetic Biology 2.0 conference is being help at UC Berkely. The researchers there are expected to take radical decisions for the field. They have already taken the decision to [URL=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9211&print=true][I]"se...

New Scientist has released a story on Biohacking via Synthetic Biology. It is about the pioneers in the field (read Knight, Endy, etc). This story surely demonstrates that biohacking has finally come to the limelight (which it proudly deserves). The titl...

Livscience.com has just posted an article titled [URL=http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060508_mm_ants_rule.html]"Why Ants Rule the World"[/URL]. It is surprising and interesting to read.

The facts such as [I]"The combined heft of ants in...

Yes, you read that right. Researchers have observed that the rate of evolution is almost twice at equators than at poles. This proves the point put forward by Klaus Rohde in 1992 that climate affects the evolution. Warmers temperature causes speedier met...

Yes and no. It is reproducible in the sense that it can make orgainsms adapt in more and less the same way to a particular environment but the genetic composition will be remarkable different in each case.

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As the urban areas expand, the natural habitat of many organisms such as birds, squirels, etc. shriks. These organsism are facing evolutionary pressure in new (urban) environment. Cities have many things which are not found naturally, and hence organisms...