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Rebuttals of a controversial book that alleges malpractice by distinguished anthropologists have so far confused rather than clarified the situation. An independent inquiry is urgently needed.
The cooperation that characterized the international Human Genome Project (HGP) is shifting rapidly towards competition as the project's members vie to decipher the genetic codes of other species.
The whole-genome shotgun technique that has been adopted by members of the Human Genome Project (HGP) is affecting the consortium's ability to follow through on its promises over data release.
Sciencemagazine has released details of the terms under which it plans to publish Celera Genomics' paper on the human genome — and drawn sharp criticism over the limits that the terms set on data access.
Forced to flee by angry fishermen protesting against lobster quotas, staff at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands spent a night late last month cowering in a mangrove thicket, until they were rescued by the Ecuadorian navy.
Toshio Yanagida rejects the conventional biophysical explanation of muscle contraction. No one doubts his technical genius, but could the debate he started ultimately hold back the field? David Cyranoski investigates.
Some of the simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Why flags flap is a long-standing puzzle that becomes easier to solve in a two-dimensional world.
Some neat transgenic experiments show how the evolution of the vertebrate head stemmed, at least in part, from elaboration of controls on pre-existing genetic machinery.
A complete description of the structure of simple liquids is missing from our understanding of matter. But new observations show that liquids contain many configurations with five-fold symmetry.
New evidence suggests that RNA splicing, the removal of non-coding parts of a messenger RNA, is catalysed by an RNA component of the splicing machinery. This component binds a crucial metal ion.
Arabidopsis was an obvious choice for the first plant genome project, but it will never feed the world. David Adam reports on efforts to harvest the genomes of rice and other important crop plants.
The sequencing of an entire plant genome is now complete. The information it contains provides an unparalleled resource for understanding the evolution of flowering plants and the genetics of crop plants.
