Life Sciences

Where's the Pooh Squid?

LA Unleashed: All things animal in southern California and beyond." That's one awesome. ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jan 28 2010 - 8:04pm

New Crowd Sourcing App for Backyard Biodiversity Research

sci.spy " app, users can venture into their little domain of the world, and take images of all of the ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Apr 17 2011 - 9:46pm

Open Season on California Market Squid

that's all year. But when they hit the quota back in December 2010, the fishery closed. However, when ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - May 22 2011 - 11:43pm

TFolder- Protein Folding Gets Easier

Protein folding is where the coiled strings of amino acids that make up proteins in all living ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2011 - 10:44am

Spider News: Messy Webs and Tarantula Hearts

novelties for you. Firstly, old age affects us all, even spiders. Researchers have found that, as spiders ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 17 2011 - 4:39am

... And Stay Closed!

exact) and was  all set to close. However, some fishers noted the continued abundance of squid in the ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Dec 18 2011 - 8:49pm

Translation Elongation Factor P Raises The Blockade In Protein Synthesis

itself, led to some answers about protein synthesis, the core biosynthetic process that makes all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 16 2012 - 8:00am

Koch's Postulates

pathogenic strains of a species." Additionally, the gene in question should be found in all pathogenic ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jan 4 2013 - 9:32pm

Toxoplasma, Cat Piss And Mouse Brains: My Lab’s First Paper On Microbial Manipulation Of Animal Behavior

eaten by a cat” effect is so strong, that many animals have evolved an innate fear of all things cat ...

Article - Michael Eisen - Jun 3 2013 - 11:29pm

Bamboo Could Turn The World's Construction Trade On Its Head

countries all compete in the global marketplace for this ever-more-expensive, seemingly irreplaceable ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 2 2014 - 1:01pm