T he news is properly filled these days with reports of studies documenting various very mysterious aspects of the cosmos, on scales large a...

S ome people are heralding discoveries in epigenetics as a vindication of Lamarck's idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics....

E pigenetics is a word that has had a variety of meanings historically, and it's sometimes unclearly employed, even by the user.  But t...

Dear colleagues, I'm in the early stages of planning a study to determine the most effective approaches to teaching Introductory Biolo...

W e've been raking a lot of leaves these past several weeks, which we do every year here in rural central PA.  But we've also, again...

A commentary  article in the 18 September issue of Science  describes an 'anti-aging' drug that an investigator wants to use in cli...

I t's off again, on again:  don't eat processed meat, don't eat red meat, or you'll get colon cancer!! Eat fish (well, unles...