Biology

• Evolution

• New Fossil of Tiktaalik Roseae Called Links From Sea To Land Animals
• Evolution Of Ants And Plants

• What Is Beauty?

• Surprise chimp born to 40 year old chimp mother at La. sanctuary - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16670685/
• Despite facility's entire male chimp population having vasectomies

• Microscopic Plumbing Set to Unclog the Cell's Tangled Web of Connections
• Hydraulic lab-on-a-chip shows its stuff by revealing where proteins stick to genes - http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=1776FB00-E7F2-99DF-39DBD473F6F1C96A&chanId=sa025
• Genes become more or less active at the touch of proteins called transcription factors, each of which can influence hundreds or thousands of other genes.

• The Incredible, Medical Egg - Genetically modified chickens that produce medicines in their eggs may be the drug factories of the future http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=2D32CD80-E7F2-99DF-30FA4505695A16F6&chanId=sa011
• Lentivirus used to introduce a gene into freshly fertilized chicken embryos that trigger the production of various drugs rather than the protein ovalbumin, which normally makes up roughly 54 percent of egg whites.
• Chickens produce either miR24--a monoclonal antibody used in treating melanoma--or interferon b-1a--an immune system protein used against multiple sclerosis. 15 to 50 micrograms per milliliter of egg white
• Related: Complete Chicken Genome Sequenced - http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00076D85-79FE-11B7-B9FE83414B7F0000