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The interpretation of genes: the "expression" of a genome is best understood as a dialogue with an organism's environment. That dialogue, not the genes alone, determines which ant becomes a queen, which fish becomes a male
We sometimes think of the environment as "out there," a place separate from us, a place we can enter and leave at will. But the environment is,...
Natural History, 10/01/02 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Fish, fatty acids and physiology; fish, long called brain food, turns out to be heart food as well
Eskimos have a lower incidence of heart disease than do other populations, even though their high-fat, high-cholesterol diet ought to make them a...
Science News, 10/19/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Arctic dinosaurs raise questions
The 65-million-year-old bones of at least three dinosaur species and two prehistoric reptiles have been recovered from a site in the Alaskan tundra...
Science News, 08/31/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
HTLV-III virus: themes and variations
HTLV-III, the virus that causes AIDS, consists of a whole spectrum of closely related but genetically distinct viruses, reports a team of...
Science News, 08/24/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Plant toxins: a double-edged sword - toxins may work against the plant itself
Secondary plant chemicals -- a wide variety of compounds, including opium, caffeine and strychnine, produced by plants but not essential to their...
Science News, 08/17/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Africa-America split: back to the suture - evidence that Florida was once part of Africa
Earth scientists mapping the United States at considerable depths have located the "suture" between North America and an African fragment -- now...
Science News, 08/10/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Protesters prompt halt in animal research
Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler last week ordered the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to suspend funding for research on...
Science News, 07/27/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Metastatic talents of toxic shock germ
The highly invasive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, responsible for such diverse maladies as pimples, food poisoning, blood poisoning, cystitis,...
Science News, 07/20/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Maine ecosystem at the Smithsonian
The creatures in the Smithsonian Institution's new aquarium exhibit are eating each other up, but museum scientists couldn't be more pleased. It's...
Science News, 07/06/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication -
Fungus degrades toxic chemicals - white rot fungus
Fungus degrades toxic chemicals Fungus degrades toxic chemicals A fungus that rots fallen trees will reduce to carbon dioxide such persistent...
Science News, 06/22/85 by Jennie Dusheck · More from publication
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