December 2012's selection of notable quotes
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
A clinical trial suggesting the heart benefits of the controversial treatment draws criticism from the scientific community.
Two former Geron CEOs make a bid for the company’s defunct human embryonic stem cell business.
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.
The malaria vaccine under development by GSK and the PATH initiative only protects about one in three babies, though some researchers say those odds are better than nothing.
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.
A magnesium supplement thought to improve brain functioning gets a small clinical trial.
A large-scale statistical analysis shows that medical studies revealing “very large effects” seldom stand up when other researchers try to replicate them.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.