DS Wilson’s view of biophysically constrained life (4)
Summary: Clearly, DS Wilson did not get Dobzhansky’s joke about Creation that began some 10 billion years ago in the context of an event that […]
Diseases & Disorders
Randomness and Divine Providence
A Q&A on randomness and God’s providence …the main goal is to really put together a collection of scholarly studies of these issues: physicists, biologists, […]
Do not trust pseudoscientists
Trust a Scientist: Sex Addiction Is a Myth A psychologist explains why sex addiction therapy is more about faith than facts, as told to Tierney […]
Human pheromones: RNA-mediated theory killers
A Fear of Pheromones Excerpt: WHAT are we going to do if it turns out that we have pheromones? What on earth would we be […]
Nutrient-dependent sustained fitness is pheromone-controlled
Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli Conclusion: …adaptation and divergence are continuing unabated in the […]
Gut bacteria and pheromones
Gut bacteria mediate aggregation in the German cockroach Reported as: Cockroach swarming pheromones produced by gut bacteria Excerpt: … their study highlights the previously overlooked […]
Sulfated steroids and RNA-mediated identity codes
Summary: In two studies of human pheromones we linked a mixture of androsterone and androstenol to increased flirtatious behavior and reports of increased attraction to […]
De novo creation of olfactory receptor genes
Large-scale transcriptional profiling of chemosensory neurons identifies receptor-ligand pairs in vivo Reported as: Deciphering the olfactory receptor code Excerpt: Its applications, countless, extend for example […]
Ecological validity vs evolutionary theory
Functional characterisation of a SNP in the ABCC11 allele—Effects on axillary skin metabolism, odour generation and associated behaviours Excerpt: …the fact that a single SNP […]
Science fiction, not theories, predicts facts
Electric fields affect wing movement, leading to agitation and changes in brain chemistry Excerpt: The effect on the wings being moved seems to agitate the […]