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red blood cells
Image credit: Red blood cells, Gerd Altmann via Pixabay.

Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution

Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered. Read More ›
pituitary gland
Photo: Pituitary gland, by Athikhun.suw, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

On Delaying Puberty

The pituitary gland produces hormones that stimulate the ovaries in girls and the testicles in boys. Read More ›
sperm
sperm
Photo: Sperm, by Bobjgalindo / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Doctor’s Diary: Evolution’s Countless Chicken-and-Egg Conundrums

It turned out last week that scientists have been wrong for 350 years about how sperm swim. Read More ›
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design
Photo: Duckweed, by Klaus J. Appenroth, via EurekAlert!

Clever Designs in Nature Worth Imitating

As the biomimetics movement accelerates, scientists keep providing more and more examples of intelligent design in organisms great and small. Read More ›
artificial meat
global warming
Photo: A “hamburger” prepared from artificial “meat,” by World Economic Forum [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Oh No: It Turns Out Lab-Grown Meat Causes Global Warming Too

Getting billions of people to stop eating meat isn’t very realistic, so some have put their hopes in lab-grown steaks made from stem cells. Read More ›
Geoffrey Simmons
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Photo: Center for Science & Culture Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem, courtesy of Dr. Simmons.

Doctor’s Diary: Is Darwin Still Relevant? 

There was a lot of mysticism and far too many guesses in 19th century. The time has come to modernize his views. Read More ›
gymnastics

A Doc Talks Human Blood Flow and Exquisitely Intelligent Design

Glicksman explains the hugely complex blood flow systems required to keep us clear-headed and alive even while doing everything from gymnastics to simply getting up in the morning. Read More ›

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