by Roberto — Not long after participating in the discovery of mRNA and the triplet code, Sydney Brenner set out to study "how genes might specify the complex structures found in higher organisms." Those are the words in the opening sentence of his 1974 foundational paper, which established the nematode C. elegans...
by Jamie — The Red Queen of Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking Glass' is a prominent figure among evolutionary biologists. Her line to Alice, "'Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place" struck the biologist Leigh Van Valen as an apt metaphor for the need for species to constantly adapt to the changing environment in order to survive.
