What Does It Take to Make a Jellyfish?

Many jellyfish are transparent, and they have seemingly simple movements and few visible interacting parts. They should, therefore, be easy to synthesize with man-made parts, but that's not what bioengineers discovered when they recently built a jellyfish mimic from rat heart cells attached to a silicone frame.


Transposable Elements Key in Embryo Development


Gene Control Regions Are Protected--Negating Evolution


Scientists Decode Key to Spider Web Strength

Imagine a cloth that gets stronger after it is damaged. That is what scientists recently discovered when probing the strength of garden spider webs.


Sophisticated Protein Motor Defies Evolution

God appears to have left His unmistakable signature throughout His creation, even on the smallest parts.

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