IN Darwin's Origin of Species he states, ''If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory ...
Presenting their work at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago, Dr. Steven Benner described the first example of artificial genetic system was ...
We typically think of natural selection acting on animal or plant species, favouring those carrying advantageous traits and making those traits more common in the next generation. However, the same ...
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Two scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Research Associate John S. Reader, D.Phil, and Professor Gerald F. Joyce, M.D., Ph.D., both of the institute’s Department of Molecular Biology, ...
This image shows how a divergent chemical mixture can 'evolve' into a mixture of species, or be dominated by just one. We know that Darwinian evolution acts on all forms of life, but does evolution ...
How fast is technology accelerating? According to the Virginia Biotechnology Research Authority (VBRA), too fast. Since completing its original master plan in 1992 and embarking on an ambitious ...