News tagged with platypus
Why sleep? Scientist delves into one of science's great mysteries
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bats, birds, box turtles, humans and many other animals share at least one thing in common: They sleep. Humans, in fact, spend roughly one-third of their lives asleep, but sleep researchers still don't know ...
New insights into Australia's unique platypus
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New insights into the biology of the platypus and echidna have been published, providing a collection of unique research data about the world's only monotremes.
Platypus link to ovarian cancer
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide believe our oldest mammalian relative may help us to better understand ovarian cancer.
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Paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA…An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 123 million years ago in what is now the Liaoning Province in northeastern China. The ...
Male sex chromosome losing genes by rapid evolution, study reveals
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Scientists have long suspected that the sex chromosome that only males carry is deteriorating and could disappear entirely within a few million years, but until now, no one has understood the evolutionary ...
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 ...
The story of X -- evolution of a sex chromosome
Apr 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Move over, Y chromosome - it's time X got some attention. In the first evolutionary study of the chromosome associated with being female, University of California, Berkeley, biologist Doris ...
Soaring or snoring? Fruit fly's immune system responds differently when asleep
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A fruit fly's immune system can tell time—and how hard it punches back against infections depends on whether the fly is snoozing or cruising. The discovery by medical school researchers could ...
Snoring or soaring? Strength of fruit-fly immune system varies
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Dec 14, 2008 |
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A fruit fly's immune system can tell time, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found, and how hard it punches back against infections depends on whether the fly is snoozing or cruising. The discovery ...
Scientists find 'redesigned hammer' that forged evolution of pregnancy in mammals
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Yale researchers have shown that the origin and evolution of the placenta and uterus in mammals is associated with evolutionary changes in a single regulatory protein, according to a report in Proceedings of ...
Marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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Research published in Nature Genetics by a team of international scientists including the department of zoology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has established an identical mechanism of genetic imprinting, a proc ...
Researchers find new mode of gene regulation in mammals
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Jul 09, 2008 |
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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered a type of gene regulation never before observed in mammals--a "ribozyme" that controls the activity of an important family of genes ...
Ancient antibody molecule offers clues to how humans evolved allergies
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have discovered how evolution may have lumbered humans with allergy problems. The team from the Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics, ...
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