• Life Lessons from Life’s Randomness

    Updated: 2010-07-28 15:19:29
    It’s traditional at the University of Chicago to invite a faculty member to deliver the convocation speech, rather than invite an outside speaker as many schools do. This year’s chosen faculty for Spring Convocation (the first campus-wide ceremony since 1929) was a well-known name from the rolls of the Biological Sciences Division: Paul Sereno, our [...]

  • See Clearly Again

    Updated: 2010-07-19 21:32:25
    Glass is possibly the most recyclable material available to us- it doesn’t break down upon recycling as paper and plastics may.  Glass also makes up a large part of household waste- bottles, broken glassware, and light bulbs being the most common items. Broken glass can be mixed with raw materials to make new glass, and because [...]

  • Mexican salamander and mysteries of stem cells

    Updated: 2010-07-12 16:57:01
    Back to the main animal science blog page Subscribe To Animal Science Blog RSS Feed Mexican salamander and mysteries of stem cells Dr Andrew Johnson is speaking today 12 July at the UK National Stem Cell Network annual conference . He and his team from the University of Nottingham have been using a Mexican aquatic salamander called an axolotl to study the evolution and genetics of stem cells research that supports the development of regenerative medicine to treat the consequences of disease and injury using stem cell therapies . This team has observed that there are extraordinary similarities in the development of axolotls and mammals that provide unique opportunities to study the properties of embryonic stem cells and germ cells . These findings are underpinned by a novel theory of

  • What plant genes tell us

    Updated: 2010-07-08 14:52:00
    Anyone who has seen teosinte, the wild grass from which maize (corn) evolved, might be forgiven for assuming a number of genetic changes underlie the transformation of one plant to the other. However, a method for exploring the genetics of domestication called Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping has revealed that only modest modifications are needed to convert a wild plant to a crop plant. Some major transitions in phenotype can even be achieved by a single genetic change........

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