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Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies

Genital stimulation opens door for cryptic female choice in tsetse flies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Manipulation of male and/or female genitalia results in a suite of changes in female reproductive behavior in tsetse flies, carriers of African sleeping sickness.





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Doctors will soon be able to feel organs via a display screen

Doctors will soon be able to feel organs via a display screen

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With the aid of computerized image analysis, it may be possible in the future for radiologists to feel images with the help of a three-dimensional mouse. Erik Vidholm at Uppsala University has been involved ...


Circadian surprise: Mechanism of temperature synchronization in drosophila

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research reveals a pathway that links peripheral sensory tissues with a "clock" in the brain to regulate molecular processes and behaviors in response to cyclical temperature changes. The research, published by Cell Press ...


Two 'noses' are necessary for flies to navigate well

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created Dec 26, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Animals and insects communicate through an invisible world of scents. By exploiting infrared technology, researchers at Rockefeller University just made that world visible. With the ability to see smells, these scientists ...


New method enables scientists to see smells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 24, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (44) | comments 1

Animals and insects communicate through an invisible world of scents. By exploiting infrared technology, researchers at Rockefeller University just made that world visible. With the ability to see smells, these scientists ...


NASA's ENose can sense brain cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in ...


Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells

Neighbour's aid for jobless nerve cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the laws of nature states that empty spaces don’t stay empty for long. Be it the flowerbed, which is overgrown with weeds in no time, or the gap in your appointment calendar, which ...


Behind closed eyes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Even when our eyes are closed, the visual centers in our brain are humming with activity. Weizmann Institute scientists and others have shown in the last few years that the magnitude of sense-related activity in a brain that's ...


Monocyte in Brain Tissue

Research identifies how inflammatory disease causes fatigue

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

New animal research in the February 18 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience may indicate how certain diseases make people feel so tired and listless. Although the brain is usually isolated from the immune ...


Without glial cells, animals lose their senses

Without glial cells, animals lose their senses

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created Oct 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensory neurons have always put on a good show. But now, it turns out, they'll be sharing the credit. In groundbreaking research to appear in the October 31 issue of Science, Rockefeller Univer ...


Convergent evolution of molecules in electric fish

Convergent evolution of molecules in electric fish

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created Mar 03, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Having a set of extra genes gave fish on separate continents the ability to evolve electric organs, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin.



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