December 2012's selection of notable quotes
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The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
A controversial study that suggested genetically modified (GM) maize causes cancer in rats is dismissed by the European Food Safety Authority.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.
Fruit flies engineered to suffer from temperature-dependent seizures reveal overactive sodium channels in neurons.
Allergen-free cow’s milk and pigs with hardened arteries illustrate how the accuracy of genetic engineering has improved.
Salinella salve, an organism described as a single layer of cells, ciliated on both inner and outer surfaces and surrounding…
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
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