Life Sciences

It Came From Below

Is Money, Celebrity and Politics Distorting Cancer Research?

Wait a minute. We here in Dallas know all about people who have used cancer research to promote themselves. Nancy, Lance, Rick, for three. But when do we ask questions about the research itself? The Dallas-founded Komen Foundation blew up last year after founder Nancy Brinker allowed it to be taken ... More >>

Ty, the Tyrannosaurus Sold by Dallas-Based Heritage Auctions, Gets the New Yorker Treatment

The saga of Ty, the Tyrannosaurus bataar fossil smuggled out of Mongolia and into a May 2012 sale by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, effectively came to a close last month when Eric Prokopi, the "commercial paleontologist" behind the sale, pleaded guilty to illegally smuggling the specimen into the ... More >>

Lubbock Texas-Based MicroZap Inc. Claims Technology Allows Bread To Stay Mold-Free

According to The Associated Press, MicroZap Inc. has developed a technology that allows bread to be stored for up to 60 days without growing mold. The device, which costs about $100 more than a standard microwave oven, makes use of the same energy to kill mold spores in a loaf with a 10-second blast ... More >>

Florida Man Who Sold a Tyrannosaurus Fossil Through Heritage Auctions Pleads to Smuggling the Dino from Mongolia

Back in May, Houston attorney Robert Painter got a panicked dispatch from the president of Mongolia: A 70 million-year-old Tyranosaurus bataar skeleton that had been illegally smuggled from the country was about to hit the auction block, and the sale must be stopped. Painter leaped into action. He ... More >>

The Ultimate Comeback

Fossil Dealer Fires Back in Custody Battle Over Dinosaur Skeleton

Two months ago, a judge in New York granted a request by the U.S. government issued a warrant for the arrest of one Tyrannosaurus bataar. The dinosaur's skeleton, which Dallas-based Heritage Auctions had attempted to sell the previous month, was suspected of being in the country illegally, having be ... More >>

North Texas Bets Big on Pumping from Lake Texoma

Environmentalists fear plan will let invasive zebra mussels spread.

Roll Red Tide: Still No Good News for Oyster Lovers from the Coastlines of Texas

Steven Doyle​Red tide, the naturally occurring algae bloom that causes toxicity in shellfish, continues to plague the state's coastline -- keeping Texas oysters out of local restaurants and threatening the $18.5 million Texas oyster industry. The state closed the entire coast of Texas to oyst ... More >>

UT Southwestern Docs May Have Found the Pathway to Revolutionary Cancer Treatment

Researchers at UT Southwestern published a study in the journal Nature Sunday identifying a cancer-specific metabolic pathway that fuels only the growth of certain kinds of kidney and adrenal tumors. This is a pretty remarkable finding, chiefly because if you can halt that specific metabolic process ... More >>

Ringing In Good News As Another UT-Dallas Professor Does His Own Tinnitus Research

​Every couple of weeks someone asks how goes those UT-Dallas docs' tinnitus research, which, last we heard, would begin with clinical trials in Belgium. Well, so happens that Dr. Michael Kilgard and Dr. Navzer Engineer, hoping to discover the sound of silence via nerve stimulation, are over there ... More >>

There Are No Texas Oysters in Your Near Future

Steven Doyle​Houston-based food journalist Robb Walsh wrote yesterday about the red tide outbreak, which has caused the delayed opening of Texas' oyster beds. Oyster harvesting was closed until further notice by the Texas Department of Health State Services (DSHS) on October 26, leaving Walsh ... More >>

The Wrath of Everyday Life

Say These Names Three Times Fast

If You've Ever Wanted to Own a Complete Dinosaur Skeleton, or Four, Now's Your Chance

Heritage expects the Allosaurus and Stegosaurus skeletons will go for upwards of $3 million. But that's for the pair. A bargain.​I've taken the almost-8-year-old who lives in my house to several of 'cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries' dinosaur auction previews, because, right, ki ... More >>

Next Week at SMU, the Discovery Institute's Finally Nailing Darwin For Good

​If you fell prey to the siren call of the Discovery Institute's 2007 Darwin vs. Design conference at Southern Methodist University, well, dust off your fossil records and get your ape suit to the dry cleaners, because next Thursday night we're gonna do it all again.Next week's panel discussion, " ... More >>

Fight To The Dino Death

95 Million Reasons Why Unfair Park Needs More Dallas Dinosaur News

Courtesy Karen CarrKaren Carr, a New Mexico artists who used to live in Dallas, offers this peek at what Aetodactylus halli might have looked like back in, ya know, the day.​Big breaking news in the world of paleontology today: Back in '06, Lance Hall, a member of the Dallas Paleontological Societ ... More >>

Charles Darwin, His Name is My Name Too

Dallas's Charles DarwinLate yesterday, as the world was celebrating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, we spoke to, um, Charles Darwin -- by which we mean the pastoral counselor and life coach with a practice in Dallas. Unfair Park wasn't the first and won't be the last to approach Darwin about the re ... More >>

Oyster Lovers Unite

Now may be your best chance for a little raw love

The Giving Tree: Dallas Urban Forest Chair Gets Bush Volunteer Award

Evolutianity

Walk The Dinosaur

Dinosaurs, Evolved

God in the Details

For a quarter-century Roy Abraham Varghese has been assembling God proofs. Along the way he won over the world's most influential atheist.

Brain Spat

Mind Reading

Tap into some brainy ethics

Poor People Make Excellent Guinea Pigs

They're Alive!

All Apologies

Hey, man. Dave's coming.

Life, Death and Money

Will Texas pony up bucks to lead in stem cell research? Pro-lifers hope not.

Delayed Pain

Plus: Viva la Alcaldesa!; Donkey Kong

Best Outdoor Sculpture

The Chromosaurs, Dallas Museum of Natural History

Best Quilter

Sue Benner

Genetic Criminals

A DNA researcher tracks down the causes of hereditary illnesses

Bugs in the Tubs

Texas consumers take on the whirlpool business--and that mysterious black crud shooting out of their bathtub jets

Power of Positive Drinking

What does your drink say about you?

Planet Mold

The latest environmental hazard in Dallas and the country is displacing homeowners, covering walls and pets, and making lawyers even richer. Welcome to the weird world of "black mold."

Off the Killing Floor

Dallas-based Supreme Beef wins a major round in its court battle with the USDA

Monkey Business

William Dembski thought Baylor University would be the perfect place to investigate a scientific alternative to Darwinism. He didn't know he'd be crucified for his cause.

Slaughterhouse Jive

Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

Seeds of Discontent

Can growing protests stem the tide of genetically engineered crops?

Dino-might

Life and Death in the Big Bend

From Russia, with bugs

Scientists from the former Soviet Union's top-secret biological weapons lab join with Dallas researchers to fight a common enemy: the deadly Ebola virus

Mesozoic mess

The Disney formula goes disturbingly awry in the off-putting Dinosaur

Jurassic bucks

Trade in dinosaur bones pits entrepreneurs against scientists

Vicious cooties

Death on tap

Cryptosporidium kills AIDS victims in Dallas. Who will the pathogen claim next?

Footprints of Fantasy

Creation scientist Dr. Carl Baugh claims he's found evidence that will explode the 'myth' of evolution. But the biggest myth is Baugh himself.

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