Tag Archives: aging

Raising boys – Not for the faint of heart

Posted on 30 Mar, 2020 by Kathleen Grogan

According to all of my parent friends, raising girls is quite different from raising boys, from the toys to the tantrums, the clothes to the bathroom habits, even for the most liberal, gender-neutral of my friends. In most sexually dimorphic … Continue reading →

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Life fast, diapause young: The African turquoise killifish genome

Posted on 7 Dec, 2015 by Noah Snyder-Mackler

Your newly sequenced genome isn’t going to get into Nature, Science, or Cell just because it “hasn’t been done before”. You need to have a hook. And speaking of hooks, there are two new fish genome papers out in Cell! … Continue reading →

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Live fast and reproduce young

Posted on 1 Apr, 2015 by Rob Denton

Here is one for the “simple, elegant science” folder: a new paper in PNAS by Julia Schroeder and colleagues that demonstrates a fitness disadvantage in offspring from older parents. While there a multitude of papers out there showing that gametes have … Continue reading →

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