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MSU research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

New research may lead to new ways to control honeybee parasite

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.


Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Brooding fishes take up nutrients from their own children

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the pipefish, the male cares for the offspring. Apart from the ones he sucks the life out of. The discovery of filial cannibalism in the pipefish is now creating a stir in the research world.


Dutch PhD develops fast method for preparing flu vaccine

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A shortage of flu vaccines may soon become a thing of the past. Researcher Manon Cox has designed an alternative process for producing large quantities of safe and effective vaccines at twice to four times ...


Beneficial Nocturnal Insects Help Combat Pests in Texas

Beneficial Nocturnal Insects Help Combat Pests in Texas

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Texas are staying up late to search for beneficial insects that feed on crops pest eggs at night.


Stem cell pioneers among Nobel Prize candidates

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two Canadian scientists whose discovery of stem cells has paved the way for controversial research could be candidates for the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the winners of which will be announced Monday.


Dinosaur eggs

Hundreds of dinosaur nests found in India

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Geologists have discovered hundreds of fossilized nests each containing clutches of eight dinosaur eggs. The eggs were located in sand banks in Tamil Nadu in Southern India.


Why solitary reptiles lay eggs in communal nests

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reptiles are not known to be the most social of creatures. But when it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. New research in the September ...


MSU researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods

Researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a new, more efficient way of cloning zebra fish, a breakthrough that could have implications for human health research.


Turning back the clock: Fasting prolongs reproductive life span

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientific dogma has long asserted that females are born with their entire lifetime's supply of eggs, and once they're gone, they're gone. New findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published online ...


Roadrunners not too fast for AgriLife researcher (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wile E. Coyote might not have been able to catch up with the roadrunner on the Saturday morning cartoons, but one Texas AgriLife Research scientist has had no problems.


Scientists discover how flu damages lung tissue

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A protein in influenza virus that helps it multiply also damages lung epithelial cells, causing fluid buildup in the lungs, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Southern Research ...


Professor hatches century-old eggs to study evolution

Professor hatches century-old eggs to study evolution

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the annals of science.


Good males are bad fathers

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Contrary to predictions, males of high genetic quality are not very successful when it comes to fertilizing eggs. A new study on seed beetles by Swedish and Danish scientists Göran Arnqvist and Trine Bilde shows that when ...


Dinosaurs May Have Been Smaller Than We Thought: New Study

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, dinosaurs have been considered the largest creatures ever to walk on land. While they still maintain this status, a new study suggests that some dinosaurs may actually have weighed ...


Boy or girl? In lizards, egg size matters

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Whether baby lizards will turn out to be male or female is a more complicated question than scientists would have ever guessed, according to a new report published online on June 4th in Current Biology. The study shows that f ...