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Wildlife Conservation Society supports world's first study of egg-laying mammal
Jun 09, 2009 |
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A Wildlife Conservation Society research intern working in the wilds of Papua New Guinea has successfully completed what many other field biologists considered "mission impossible"—the first study of a rare ...
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Wide heads give hammerheads exceptional stereo view
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Hammerhead sharks are some of the Ocean's most distinctive residents. 'Everyone wants to understand why they have this strange head shape,' says Michelle McComb from Florida Atlantic University. One possible ...
Darwin's Tree of Life May Be More Like a Thicket
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Jan 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In On The Origin of Species, Darwin used the image of a tree of life to illustrate how species evolve, one from another. Even today, branches sprouting from lower branches (representing ancest ...
The value of variation: Ecologists consider the causes and consequences
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Consider the case of the three-spine stickleback. These tiny fish that thrive in oceans and in fresh water might appear to be the same, yet ecologists are finding that they are actually a diverse collection of very specialized ...
A map of the worm: First detailed anatomical atlas of C. elegans for use in the lab
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Feb 16, 2008 |
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To meet the demands of biologists who work with the model worm C. elegans in the laboratory, a new anatomical atlas has just been published. It is the most detailed and comprehensive atlas of C. elegans in print to date ...
Biologists discover motor protein that rewinds DNA
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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Two biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered the first of a new class of cellular motor proteins that "rewind" sections of the double-stranded DNA molecule that become unwound, ...
Lost cuckoo breaks its silence
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Feb 26, 2007 |
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A team of biologists with the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have recorded for the first time the call of the extremely rare Sumatran ground cuckoo, found only on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
Researchers piggyback to safer reprogrammed stem cells
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge have just published in the journal Development a new and safer way of generating pluripotent stem cells - the stem cells that can give r ...
Coping and copulation behavior may help calculate diabetes risk
Nov 06, 2008 |
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Discussion of a man's background, attitude, and sexual history isn't just the fodder of Sex and The City episodes – in the future, it could also be a way of evaluating his risk of diabetes.
Seeing through the skin
Sep 11, 2008 |
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Feeling blue? According to Prof. Leonid Yaroslavsky from Tel Aviv University, the saying may be more than just a metaphor.
Nitrogen research shows how some plants invade, take over others
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Biologists know that when plants battle for space, often the actual battle is for getting the nitrogen.
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