Abstract: Are twins different? That's right. Medically speaking, there are two basic types of twins, one is monozygotic twins, ...
Abstract: The war on terrorism has brought some new realities to all of us. One of them is the possibility of biological attack...
Abstract: Bald is beautiful. Try telling that to an estimated 50 million men in the United States with some degree of hereditar...
Abstract: The topic of this program is terrify — bio-warfare uses biological weapon targeted at civillians. It's happened befor...
Abstract: We think of a microchip as the brain of a computer. Now a chip can help diagnose diseases in your brain. Smoking may ...
Abstract: In December, 2002, many of those same researchers announced they had completed the second most important genome in th...
Abstract: It's August, and Japan's paddy fields have grown lushly. They're ready to produce the season's rice crop. The ears of...
Abstract: At the beginning of summer, female lobsters lay their eggs. Lobster eggs are half a millimetre in diameter. A month a...
Abstract: In the human genome, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes. For 22 of these pairs, a chromosome from the fahter teams wit...
Abstract: In search of a century-old tree, the scientists come to a deep valley on the Island of Mauritius. At a path thro...
Abstract: There are many different types of animals in Australia. Echidnas mainly feed on fat and juicy termites. The platypus ...
Abstract: Women who starve themselves to extreme thinness and sometimes to death may be driven as much by their genes as by soc...
Abstract: For centuries' isolation, disease, feuds and disasters limited variation in Iceland's gene pool. In 1995, more people...
Abstract: Notice the pretty lotus flower coming from a very humble origin of mucky muck, rises high above the water, untainted....
Abstract: If bees were gone we'd miss all that honey. The United States produces 200 million pounds of honey every year. But fa...
Abstract: Sixty years ago, Japanese army scinetists experimented with an organic paste that glowed softly in the dark. They pla...
Abstract: Infectious diseases are caused by bacteria. But during the Middle Ages, millions of people died without knowing the c...
Abstract: People have started to look into the secret world of the honeybee since the prehistoric times as we tried to find out...
Abstract: From the largest organisms to those that are rooted in the ground, to those that fly, swim, float, dig, to those too ...
Abstract: It is so important to understand the mechanisms that underlie the regulation of sleep and circadian rhythms because s...