Month: November 2017

By Tim Stephens – November 28, 2017 An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the last ice age. The new findings, published November 28 in the journal eLife, are based on an analysis of ancient DNA from fossils of the enigmatic “New World stilt-legged horse” excavated from sites such…

Monday 13 November 2017 Have commercial imperatives won when it comes to biomedical research? Professor Jenny Reardon argues that genomics hasn’t delivered on promised public and civic values. Simplistic narratives of cures and miracle drugs obscure harder questions about the meaning of and control over genomic data. While not denying the scientific break-throughs of genomics, she…

ED YONG  – NOV 16, 2017 On September 1, 1914, an old, trembling passenger pigeon named Martha died at Cincinnati Zoo. With her demise, her entire species slid into extinction. But in many ways, the species was already gone, for a solitary passenger pigeon is almost not a passenger pigeon at all. This is an animal…

By Calvin Men, Santa Cruz Sentinel POSTED: 09/25/17 SANTA CRUZ >> Dan Heller has a swatch of carpet samples leaning against a chair in his office. The CEO of Two Pore Guys, a biotech company, is gearing up for the company’s accelerated growth. The company just expanded the office space to 16,000 square feet and plan on…