(May 4, 2005) -- Oregon State University researchers have made significant new advances in determining the structure of all possible DNA sequences -- a discovery that in one sense takes up where Watson and Crick left ...
(January 23, 2007) -- Profound doubts were the frequent response when MIT biophysicist Alexander Rich announced that two single-strand ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules could spontaneously align themselves to form a double ..
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(October 19, 1999) -- Sherlock Holmes had his Watson, Alexander Graham Bell had his Watson, and now, thanks to Northwestern University's Intelligent Information Laboratory (The InfoLab), all researchers can have a Watson ..
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(November 14, 2006) -- James Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of regular DNA 53 years ago. Now, scientists from Stanford University have determined the structure of xDNA.
That's "expanded DNA," a strange ...
(June 1, 2005) -- Using a newly developed thermometer made of zircon, researchers have found evidence that environmental conditions on early Earth, within 200 million years of the solar system's formation, were ..
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(September 2, 2005) -- About 86 percent of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and 59 percent of the natural gas output are being disrupted by Hurricane Katrina, according to a new prediction model developed by a ..
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(July 19, 2006) -- Van Morrison sang about it, Peter Fonda starred in a movie about it, and people from all over the world will pay top dollar just to get some of it. It's tupelo honey, a honey so distinct, light and .
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(December 21, 2000) -- Experimental scientists have just published findings that represent a major step forward in their understanding of the individual molecules that comprise our DNA. Chemists from UC Santa Barbara, ..
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(October 3, 2006) -- How nature arrived at the final structure of DNA has been a long-standing mystery.
Recently, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researcher Martin Egli and colleagues reported the X-ray crystal ...
(September 23, 1997) -- The earliest existing mound complex built by humans in the new world has been identified in Louisiana by a team of archaeologists and researchers from around the United ...
-- Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physics, to questions of biology. 
-- Professor Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM FRS (8 June 1916 - 28 July 2004) was a British physicist, molecular biologist and neuroscientist, most noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the .
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-- In biology, a trait or character is a feature of an organism.
The term phenotype is sometimes used as a synonym for trait in common use, but strictly speaking, does not indicate the trait, but the ...
-- Scientific method as envisaged by one of its early exponents, Sir Isaac Newton, is fundamental to the investigation and acquisition of new knowledge based upon physical evidence. Scientists use ..
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-- A macromolecule is a large molecule with a large molecular mass, but generally the use of the term is restricted to polymers and molecules which structurally include polymers.
Many examples come from ...
-- Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living things. All known cellular life and some viruses contain DNA.
The main ...
-- Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecular level.
The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry. Molecular biology chiefly ..
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-- Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist.
He is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. Pauling pioneered the ..
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-- The genetic code is a set of rules that maps DNA sequences to proteins in the living cell, and is employed in the process of protein synthesis.
Specifically, the code defines a mapping between ...
-- Genetics is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms.
Humans applied knowledge of genetics in prehistory with the domestication and breeding of plants and animals. In modern ..
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By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a ..
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The long-awaited new edition of James D. Watson's classic text, Molecular Biology of the Gene, has been thoroughly revised and is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick's ..
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Emanuel Derman was one of the first physicists to move to Wall Street, and his career paralleled the growth of quantitative trading over the past twenty years. In My Life as a Quant , he traces his ..
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Biochemistry Molecular Biology of Plants is a major contribution to the plant sciences literature, superbly edited by three distinguished scientists, Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell ..
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Life on Earth arose nearly 4 billion years ago, bursting forth from air, water, and rock. Though the process obeyed all the rules of chemistry and physics, the details of that original event pose as ..
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The most impressive idea to emerge from the recent World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland: a new approach to identifying and managing the world's twenty most pressing problems. In this age of ..
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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or ..
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Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by ..
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Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia ..
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