Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with those at the Marine Biological Lab in Massachusetts, US, have worked out the mechanism behind the fastest muscle among
How do some species of bacteria and a species of algae manage to survive in the inhospitable salty waters of the Dead Sea? Researchers in Israel and USA have got an answer for at least one such
Discovery of a new mode of dosage compensation that is, how the sexes are compensated for their reduced dosage of chromosome linked genes leaves certain questions unanswered
Two groups experiment to uphold the tenability of one theory of genesis of introns over another, yet fail to resolve the basic questions regarding these genetic sub units
In what appears to be the decade s most spectacular event in biology, scientists sequenced the entire genome of Methanococcus jannaschii , a primitive microbe that not only provides fundamental insights into early evolution, but also holds a lot
The archaeon M jannaschii was originally isolated in 1983 by John Leigh (then at the University of Illinois; now at the University of Washington) from a sample collected from the hydrothermal vent
Stuttering and the reasons behind it have perplexed scientists for long now. Some assign the trouble to the deficiencies in hearing, others to the peculiarities in the areas of the brain that govern
