New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities 6 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot. But University of Florida scientists have found the opposite is true. In a study with wide implications for a longstanding ... | |
 Ancient marine invertebrate diversity less explosive than thought 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Diversity among the ancestors of such marine creatures as clams, sand dollars and lobsters showed only a modest rise beginning 144 million years ago with no clear trend afterwards, according to an international ... | |
 Researchers run rings round cell division 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A puzzle in the control of cell division, one of the most fundamental processes in all biology, has been unravelled by Oxford University researchers. | |
Ridding meat of E. coli 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
You may be able to enjoy a rare hamburger soon, thanks to a discovery made by a team of University of Alberta researchers. | |
Resveratrol found to improve health, but not longevity in aging mice on standard diet 9 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Scientists have found that the compound resveratrol slows age-related deterioration and functional decline of mice on a standard diet, but does not increase longevity when started at middle age. This study, conducted and ... | |
Researchers identify tumor suppressor that manages cellular cleaning and recycling proceses 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a specific tumor suppressor that manages membrane traffic routes for cellular cleaning and recycling. | |
Instances of mass die-offs in wild lions precipitated by extreme climate change 18 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
An international research team has published the first clear example of how climate extremes can create conditions in which diseases that are normally tolerated singly may converge and bring about mass die-offs in wildlife. | |
Search for salt tolerant grasses aims to improve roadside plantings July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Standing in a greenhouse at the University of Rhode Island, Rebecca Brown was smiling even though it appeared that something had gone terribly wrong. Almost all of the 16 species of grass she planted last February in hundreds ... | |
Texas A&M researchers develop tool to study complex clusters of genes July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Texas A&M University researchers have developed a computational tool that will help scientists more accurately study complex units of clustered genes, called operons, in bacteria. | |
Tigers disappear from Himalayan refuge July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered ... | |
Species extinction threat underestimated due to math glitch, says study July 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Extinction risks for natural populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical "misdiagnosis," according to a new study led by a University of Colorado at Boulder ... | |
 Worms do calculus to find meals or avoid unpleasantness July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they ... | |
Gene directs stem cells to build the heart July 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers have shown that they can put mouse embryonic stem cells to work building the heart, potentially moving medical science a significant step closer to a new generation of heart disease treatments that use human stem ... | |
 Crossed (evolutionary) signals? July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells ... | |
 'Mind's eye' influences visual perception July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Letting your imagination run away with you may actually influence how you see the world. New research from Vanderbilt University has found that mental imagery—what we see with the "mind's eye"—directly impacts ... | |
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