We don't do this very often, but here we point out an excellent use of genetics with a potentially very important therapeutic outcome.  ...

Alien life!! "Arsenite...[incorporates into DNA] in the place of phosphate in the nucleotides during the synthesis of DNA."   Y...

Out of sheer neglect, we never posted a picture of this beautiful mermaid sculpture that Holly sent from Kenya when she was there last summe...

Remember the Fickle Finger of Fate? WARNING:  This message contains adult content (along with something that purports to be 'scien...

Could the promotional enthusiasm over vitamin D supplementation be screeching to a halt ?  Ok, that's too much to hope, but at least the...

The incidence of childhood asthma skyrocketed through the 1980s and 1990s and no one knows why.  Environmental epidemiologists have attribut...

Here's a story that may not seem so but is actually about the kind of extensive cooperation that characterizes life, and is a major the...