Life Sciences

Nature's Oldest Aphrodisiac: Cryptochromes Under The Light Of The Moon

way back.” Whether they have anything at all to do with human associations between the full moon and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2007 - 11:07am

Investigating Molecular Switches

channel will remain open all the time”, Sabine Schmid concludes. To precisely define such mechanical ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2007 - 3:35pm

Mutation Named Magellan Steers Nerve Cells Off Course

a universal feature common to all growing neurons. Therefore, “Phr1 is likely to play a role in most growing ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2007 - 4:30pm

Violent Sex Acts Boost Insect's Immunity System

with all its potential immunological complications." The conference was the first of two organised ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2007 - 11:17am

New Gene Loss Studies Show How They Contributed To Natural Selection

appear to be nonfunctional, functional copies of all of them exist in the mouse genome. “These orphan ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 11 2007 - 9:54pm

Non-Flying Reindeer Deserve A Science Article Too

a very shiny glow, the noses of all other reindeer are furry, and usually white and gray, the colors of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 25 2008 - 9:48am

The Complex Ecology Of Predator And Prey

the number of babies produced were all more pronounced than those seen in killifish from the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2008 - 4:16pm

Counter-Intuitive: Sleep Helps Us By Weakening Brain Connections, Say Researchers

that’s why humans and all living organisms sleep. Without sleep, the brain reaches a saturation point ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 20 2008 - 4:01pm

Sequencing 1000 Human Genomes- How Many Do We Really Need?

vary in their genomes. Although we're all roughly 99.9% similar in our genomes, that still leaves ...

Article - Michael White - Jan 28 2008 - 11:50pm

TLX, Neurogenesis And Some Progress In Understanding How Adult Neural Stem Cells Modulate Learning

passed with flying colors in all but one test: the Morris water maze, a common behavioral test in which ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2008 - 3:06pm