Scientists announce mouse sperm cryopreservation breakthrough July 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A team of Jackson Laboratory scientists have figured out a simple, cost-effective process to freeze mouse sperm and get it to achieve high fertilization rates with mouse eggs. The breakthrough will greatly reduce the cost ... | |
 Exotic Chameleon Spends Most of its Life as an Egg July 11, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a chameleon species that spends a good two-thirds of its life inside an egg: Furcifer labordi lives about 8-9 months as an embryo, and has a post-hatching ... | |
Redundant System Keeps Embryo in Stitches July 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- A universal system in animal cells that plays a key role in wound-closure and embryonic development can be quickly replicated by other cells if the original system is damaged, Duke University researchers ... | |
 British scientist hopes for 'yeti hair' breakthrough July 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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A British scientist said Monday he was anxiously awaiting the results of DNA tests on hair claimed to be from a yeti after initial examinations showed it had human and ape-like characteristics. | |
Automatic imitation is not only a human trait, research finds July 30, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have shed new light on a process known as 'automatic imitation' — and discovered that we have more in common with the humble budgerigar than previously thought. | |
Evolution of skull and mandible shape in cats July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In a new study published in the online-open access journal PLoS ONE, Per Christiansen at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reports the finding that the evolution of skull and mandible shape in sabercats ... | |
Researchers identify an important gene for a healthy, nutritious plant July 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Dartmouth researchers identify an important gene for a healthy, nutritious plant. The research paper, published with colleagues from Colorado State University and the University of South Carolina, appeared in the early online ... | |
Summer heat too hot for you? What is comfortable? July 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Extreme heat or cold is not only uncomfortable, it can be deadly—causing proteins to unravel and malfunction. For many years now, scientists have understood the molecular mechanisms that enable animals to sense dangerous ... | |
Researchers discover cell's 'quality control' mechanism July 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Researchers in Japan and Canada have discovered a key component of the quality control mechanism that operates inside human cells – sometimes too well. The breakthrough has significant implications for the development of ... | |
Fish with temperature-dependent sex determination face global warming July 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In vertebrates with separate sexes, sex determination can be genotypic (GSD) or temperature-dependent (TSD). TSD is very common in reptiles, where the ambient temperature during sensitive periods of early development irreversibly ... | |
 Scientists find unexpected key to flowering plants' diversity July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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What began with an off-the-cuff curiosity eventually led Joe Williams to hang from the limbs of a tree 80 feet above the soil of northeastern Australia. | |
 Olfactory Fine-Tuning Helps Fruit Flies Find Their Mates July 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Fruit flies fine-tune their olfactory systems by recalibrating the sensitivity of different odor channels in response to changing concentrations of environmental cues, a new study has shown. Disable this calibration ... | |
Newly discovered monkey is threatened with extinction July 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate. Known ... | |
 Piecing Together an Extinct Lemur, Large as a Big Baboon July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Penn State researchers have used computed tomography (CT) technology to virtually glue newly-discovered skull fragments of a rare extinct lemur back into its partial skull, which was discovered over a century ... | |
A bee's future as queen or worker may rest with parasitic fly July 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica. A tiny parasitic fly is affecting the social behavior of a nocturnal bee, helping to determine which individuals become ... | |
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