Biotechnology
epub |eng | 2004-08-23 | Author:Elaine Dewar [Dewar, Elaine]

In spite of the fact that he had mostly supported himself, the idea that biological science is a public endeavor, rather than a private pleasure to satisfy private curiosity, was ...
( Category: Biotechnology August 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Tim Spector [SPECTOR, TIM]

Willpower and marshmallows Jenny and Florence looked very similar but were always fighting. Until we first tested them at the age of 40 they had no idea they were identical ...
( Category: Biotechnology July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:Christopher Kinkaid [Kinkaid, Christopher]

Photo-periods are vital to growing algae. The diurnal day-night cycle is a fundamental influence on how algae evolved. Photoperiods have dramatic impacts on the life-cycle of algae and each species ...
( Category: Biotechnology July 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-14 | Author:Aubrey de Grey

Know Your Enemy Today, for the first time in history, we are in the position to design such drugs on a rational basis. Just over a decade ago, when Peter ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering July 15,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

. . . on Human Longevity It is one of the most remarkable things that in all of the biological sciences there is no clue as to the necessity of ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics July 5,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-20 | Author:Cornish-Bowden, Athel [Cornish-Bowden, Athel]

Figure 9.9. A mutase is a particular case of an isomerase that catalyzes the transposition of a group (typically a phospho group) from one position to another in the same ...
( Category: Biotechnology May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott

Chapter 12 What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? One more defect and they could not have existed. —George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Hence we conceive of the ...
( Category: Bioengineering March 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-06 | Author:Carl Zimmer

ASSEMBLING ASSASSINS Among its many accomplishments, open-source evolution has produced a lot of ways for us to get sick. When Kiyoshi Shiga discovered Shigella, he believed it was a distinct ...
( Category: Microbiology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Anthes, Emily [Anthes, Emily]

7. Robo Revolution In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an unusual field agent: a cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the furry feline into an ...
( Category: Emergency March 25,2014 )