In the Real World
History
Ever since the early 1900s scientists have observed cells in the process of dividing, but they didn't understand how they did it (Nurse, Masui, & Hartwell, 1998). In the last 40 years, scientis...
Health
It is been blamed for the split of Sheryl Crow and Lance Armstrong. Some people call it their biological clock, and for many women in their 30s and 40s, its ticking can be more than a little bit lo...
Ethics
You have probably heard about stem cells in the popular media, about how they hold so much promise for human disorders and the ethical concerns about how scientists obtain them, even about how they...
Pop Culture
In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, water goes into the FLDSMDFR (the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator) and the contraption spits out clones of meatballs, hamburgers...
Research
Lee Hartwell, who won the Nobel prize for his work on the cell cycle, also leads the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. He recently described what he felt are the most promising directions for cancer r...