Tag: biology
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Reverse evolution. Strange as Evolution…
The saga of the Osedax "bone-eating" worms began 12 years ago, with the first discovery of these deep-sea creatures that feast on the bones of dead animals. The Osedax story grew even stranger when researchers found that the large female worms contained harems of tiny dwarf males. Examining bone worms collected at 700 meters (2,296…
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Melatonin. Sleep. An ancient secret long forgotten...
As much as we may try to deny it, Earth’s cycle of day and night rules our lives. When the sun sets, the encroaching darkness sets off a chain of molecular events spreading from our eyes to our pineal gland, which oozes a hormone called melatonin into the brain. When the melatonin latches onto neurons,…
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Organs from "scratch"! NOT!
In what's being hailed as a scientific first, researchers in Scotland have created a fully functional organ from scratch inside the body of a living animal. (1) Well, because scientists keep making the same claims over and over again, I am oblidged to make the same clarifications over and over again... It is in the…
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Samalanders, limb regeneration, "programming" life...
The secret of how salamanders successfully regrow body parts is being unravelled by researchers in a bid to apply it to humans. For the first time, researchers have found that the 'ERK pathway' must be constantly active for salamander cells to be reprogrammed, and hence able to contribute to the regeneration of different body parts.…
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Paley, Darwin, the interconnection of ideas, Truth...
William Paley is a 19th-century theologian best known today for his argument supporting intelligent design: Something as complex as a mechanical watch clearly would not exist without a creator. Thus we can infer that the intricacy of our bodies — and those of all creatures — is the work of God. One might be surprised…
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