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How the ‘Mouse Man’ changed medical research

By ⋅ January 28, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New Scientist, January 29, 2009 By Sharon Oosthoek link to New Scientist One hundred years ago in a lab at Harvard University, a young zoology student was busily overseeing the breeding of pair after pair of brother and sister mice. The “Mouse Man”, as he was known on campus, was trying to create the first [...]

Nature 2.0: Redefining conservation

By ⋅ July 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

New Scientist, 5 July 2008 By Sharon Oosthoek link to New Scientist Nature 2.0 Preserving the status quo is no longer an option for conservationists, says Sharon Oosthoek FOR nearly a decade the forests of British Columbia have been ravaged by an infestation of mountain pine beetles. In March, government experts announced that the pest [...]

Struggling to find an appetite for cloned meat

By ⋅ April 26, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

New Scientist, 26 April 2008 By Sharon Oosthoek link to New Scientist Livestock auctions are not normally the stuff of headlines, but then it’s not every day that cows as unusual as Dundee Paradise and Dundee Paratrooper are going under the hammer. The dairy cows were due to be sold at Easter Compton cattle market [...]

The decline, fall and return of the red wolf

By ⋅ February 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

New Scientist, 23 February, 2008 By Sharon Oosthoek Pilgrims from England landed on the coast of present-day Massachusetts in 1620 to carve a settlement from a vast and forbidding wilderness. Living cheek by jowl with North America’s wolves, settlers quickly came to fear and loathe these formidable predators, which competed for deer and preyed on [...]

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