Dna
-
The Meaning of Life
May 24, 2010
Last week, biologist J. Craig Venter crossed a momentous threshold—creating a living organism with no ancestor. In 2007, Carl Zimmer gave Seed this provocative look at the difficulties inherent in defining "life."
-
Biotech Is Not a Product
April 19, 2010
Anastasia Bodnar, geneticist, blogger, and maize-fortifier, on misconceptions surrounding biotechnology and drawing inspiration from dog-eared utopian classics.
-
The Deepest Links
July 06, 2009
Evolution is a tinkerer. When novel features evolve, old parts are co-opted for new roles.
-
How to Build a Better Tree of Life
July 01, 2009
An unconventional approach to analyzing molecular sequences allows researchers to construct larger evolutionary trees.
-
What the Cow Genome Tells Us
June 08, 2009
The recent sequencing of the bovine genome will dramatically transform more than just the cattle industry.
-
The Parasite Puzzle
April 27, 2009
How one of Africa’s deadliest pathogens uses on-the-fly, genetic costume changes to outsmart our immune system.
-
The Achilles’ Heel of Aging
April 20, 2009
Understanding the biological basis of senescence may allow us to delay or prevent the degenerative declines long accepted as an inevitable part of getting older.
-
How to Reign Indefinitely
April 08, 2009
An unusual form of asexual reproduction by a Japanese species of termite raises the question: What is the value of sex?
-
Into the Landscape of Genomic Evolution
February 12, 2009
How the tools of genetic sequencing are changing the way we study the origins and development of life.
-
Blogging the Origin
January 28, 2009
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, chapter by chapter.
-
Extending Darwinism
January 06, 2009
Is there more to heredity, natural selection, and evolution than genes and DNA?
-
A Still Curious Case
December 24, 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button grapples with age-old fears of death and aging, physiological processes that modern science is only beginning to understand.
-
Seed Picks 2008
December 23, 2008
Seed selects the year's outstanding book releases, from Mary Roach's sex book, Bonk, to E.O. Wilson's ant colony opus, The Superorganism.
-
How We Evolve
October 07, 2008
A growing number of scientists argue that human culture itself has become the foremost agent of biological change.
-
Wing of Bat, and Mouse’s Leg
August 27, 2008
Deciphering how a paw becomes a wing confirms some of eco-devo's basic hypotheses.
-
Redefining Genes
January 14, 2008
-
The Evolution of Language
September 25, 2007
What songbirds, dancing, and knot-tying can tell us about why we speak.
-
I Can’t Believe It’s Science (for May 28, 2007)
May 29, 2007
-
Science in 2006
January 16, 2006
-
Concerning the President of the United States of America
January 11, 2006
-
Snuppy Stands Alone
January 10, 2006
-
Unsolved Mystery: Mozart’s Skull
January 09, 2006
-
The Week in Science: 12/30-1/5
January 06, 2006
-
Science Goes To The Dogs
December 12, 2005
-
Evolution on Ice
December 02, 2005
Now on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
-
Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
-
Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
-
Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
