Subject: Biology

• MRSA-Killing Fogger Invented by Brits: Bloody Good Job

  February 20, 2008

• Sebastopol Mastodon for Sale on eBay

  March 11, 2008

• This Just In: Ants No Longer Morally Superior to Humans

  March 14, 2008

• Ernest Gallo Research Center Discovers Human Jug-Wine Gene

  "Back off, I'm a scientist." Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have discovered a region of the human genome that determines how the body reacts to jug wine, according to findings announced in the Dec. 8 online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The institute dedicated to jug wine's effects was established in 1980 with a grant from Gallo, the marketing and distribution whiz behind E&J Gallo winery,

  January 15, 2009

• The Straight Poop

  September 13, 1995

• Mom-and-Pop Record Stores Not Exactly Cheering Virgin's Demise

  The Virgin megastore died? Drag. The plaintive statements from city officials when the Virgin megastore announced it was closing shop seemed slightly un-San Francisco. Isn't this the city that hates big box stores with such a vengeance that they're blocked from taking root by anti-corporate NIMBY mobs? More specifically, aren't the San Francisco counterparts of John Cusack and Jack Black in High Fidelity performing air-guitar riffs of exhilaration upon hearing the corporate Man was leavi

  March 6, 2009

• Out of the Wild

  March 18, 2009

• Nature, Nurture, or All of the Above?

  A local author turns his body into a testing ground. Results vary.

  March 18, 2009

• Oyster Lovers Unite

  February 11, 2009

• Synthetic Biology Debate

  November 5, 2008

• Deep Freeze

  Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World.

  June 25, 2008

• There Already Is Blood

  February 6, 2008

• We "Really" Love Them

  January 23, 2008

• Art Rolls By

  September 26, 2007

• Mother Nature or Nurture?

  The question of whether to begin saving creatures and habitats from climate change

  July 4, 2007

• Psycho Dogs

  What makes canines go crazy? The answer is in their genes.

  March 7, 2007

• Jack White bros down for an intimate in-store

  June 14, 2006

• DNA Loungin'

  Observing the mating rituals of horny dudes at the Noc Noc

  December 7, 2005

• Send in the Clones

  Infiltrator chooses a veeeeery witty headline for his story about pet cloning

  September 14, 2005

• Best Place to Buy 45s and 78s

  May 11, 2005

• Best Record Store

  May 11, 2005

• Best DVD Selection

  May 11, 2005

• DVD Gift Box

  November 24, 2004

• God of the Flies

  Arts gadfly Jonathon Keats tries to map the one true Lord on the genetic tree of life via fruit flies, prayer, and KGO radio

  By Lessley Anderson

  August 18, 2004

• The Good Deed

  With the help of local music, Rock Ninja! attempts to inspire Haight Street's hippies to choose life

  March 17, 2004

• A Question of Risk

  Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

  January 28, 2004

• Clone Home

  Jellyfish DNA in a rabbit? It's science; it's art; it's "Gene(sis)" at the Berkeley Art Museum.

  September 3, 2003

• Readers' Poll

  May 14, 2003

• The New Defenders

  An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?

  September 11, 2002

• Truth Over Death

  March 6, 2002

• Crying Whale

  Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

  November 21, 2001

• The Anthrax Detector No One Wants

  October 24, 2001

• Who Owns Your Clone?

  September 12, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  God and Science; Potshot or Put-on? You Decide.; Dancing Around the Issue

  July 4, 2001

• Looking for God at Berkeley

  A provocative theory called "intelligent design" claims evolution is hogwash. But it's not the usual religious zealots leading the latest attack on Darwin. It's scientists and professors at Cal.

  June 20, 2001

• Best Mushroom Source

  May 23, 2001

• Russian Roulette

  The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

  April 25, 2001

• The Battle for Walpert Ridge

  A lawsuit over a proposed Hayward country club promises to be more than just another environmentalists-vs.-developers fight

  February 14, 2001

• Deranged in the Mesozoic

  May 17, 2000

• Ca$h for Genes

  After billionaire pedophile Larry Hillblom died, illegitimate children began stepping forward to demand part of his estate. It took cutting-edge genetic sleuths to prove that they were, indeed, to the mogul born.

  April 5, 2000

• Genes Without Frontiers

  The so-called gene chip could revolutionize the way we treat cancer patients. That is, if biotech firms don't keep it out of doctors' hands.

  February 9, 2000

• Science of the Lambs

  Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

  June 30, 1999

• Lab Rats

  UCSF's Stanley Prusiner is a Nobel laureate and superstar of medical research. But employees don't feel safe working for him.

  May 12, 1999

• Gonna Fly Now

  Trading with the enemy helps a Berkeley geneticist divine the secrets of the fruit fly

  January 27, 1999

• Pulling the Wings Off Flies

  A scientist discovers what makes the insects so agile -- and why NASA should care

  June 17, 1998

• Snake Eyes

  A scientist wonders what the inscrutable snake has to teach us

  February 4, 1998

• This Afternoon: Elvis Costello at Amoeba

  Elvis Costello and Jim LauderdaleMonday, June 22, 2009Amoeba MusicBetter than: Concerts you have to pay for.Sure, it's finally feeling like summer in San Francisco today, but a good couple hundred people skipped work this morning for more reasons than just working on their tan. The line that stretched down to the McDonald's from Amoeba's doorway around 9:30 a.m. told of another rare visitor in the city today besides the sun: Elvis Costello was in town. Not only that, but he was here to play a fr

  June 22, 2009

• Blame it on the Chromosomes: UCSF Researchers Link Perfect Pitch to Genetics

  Another genetic mutation...Milli Vanilli finally has the excuse they've been waiting for: It's not that they can't sing -- they just don't have musical talent in their blood. In the latest edition of the American Journal of Human Genetics, U.C San Francisco researchers say they've discovered a region of the human genome that may harbor the genetic predisposition for what they deem "absolute" (perfect) pitch, which is the ability to instantaneously recognize tones and label them with their proper

  July 2, 2009

• Eating Unnaturally, Naturally

  July 15, 2009

• S.F. State Mushroom King Names Glowing Fungi After Mozart Requiem. He Also Named Species Resembling Tiny Penis After His Good Pal.

  Cassius V. Stevani / Chemistry Institute, University of Sao PauloThe luminous Mycena luxaeterna (eternal light) owes its name to lyrics from Mozart's requiem​Professor Dennis Desjardin is a well-named man. The San Francisco State mushroom specialist's handle, translated from French, literally means "of the garden." Earn a Ph.D in botany and people do point this out. "I thought of changing it to 'De La Merde' -- 'of the shit,'" says the professor. "You know, people always comment how mushrooms

  October 8, 2009