News & Changes
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Our first paper combining models of gene networks and cell lineages has come out in Proceedings B (reprints are available on request). Also, check out our Worm Earth video.
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The paper has come out in Nature's website (here's a reprint, if you don't have access). I'll post some links of about the paper here as they become available:
Press Releases- [6] Sex begets sex (Nature Press Release)
- Sex: why bother? (University of Houston Press Release)
- Sexual reproduction may ensure its own survival by helping natural selection improve the gene pool (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Press Release)
- Sex: why even educated fleas do it (AlphaGalileo)
- Sex begets sex (UH Department of Biology & Biochemistry)
- How sex stays in fashion (Nature Editor's Summary)
- The advantages of sex (Nature Reviews Genetics)
- Warum gibt es sex? (Geoscience Online)
- Sex and the Fly (Almanacco della Scienza) [Note: our work was not done on fruitflies!]
- Why Sex? (Seed)
- Modeling Sex's (Evolutionary) Appeal? (Biomedical Computation Review)
- Why we have sex: it's cleansing (Live Science, MSNBC, FOXNews, Yahoo! News, ...)
- Sexo tem vantagens evolutivas (Publico)
- Re-evolucao sexual (Folha de S. Paulo)
- Pondering the sex that's out of this world (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- O sexo tem que ter as suas vantagens evolutivas (De Frente)
- Sex -- 'the fuel for variation' (Houston Chronicle)
- Resistance is not futile / Entanglement (Newton's Binomium)
- Why sex is good (and not for the obvious reasons) (The Proper Study of Mankind)
- Sex can save the world (The Phoenix)
- Sex (The Contingency Table)
- Sexiness doesn't mean better health (Genetics & Health)
- Vi sao lai can co sex? (VnExpress)
- Sex kao mehanizam prociscavanja (CroEos)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
We're one week away from the publication of our next paper, so we're getting pretty excited. Here are some teasers to get you in the right mood:
- Why do fish need bicycles?
- Blind Watchmaker or Swiss Designer? [ Part I / Part II ]
Monday, February 14, 2005
Here's an excellent online discussion of our paper by PZ Myers.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Did you know that C. elegans is "un petit cuc del terra" in Catalan? Then check this out. If your Catalan isn't up to scratch, try this commentary on our paper.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler," Albert Einstein once said. Nature seems to agree. For more information on this work see the Cell-O website.