Life Sciences

Extinct Passenger Pigeon Gets A New Place On The Phylogenetic Tree

genetic information is available. They built a family tree of all living pigeons and doves, and then ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2010 - 11:27am

Herd Immunity For Plants- How GMOs Can Save Agriculture

people who will not get vaccines at all yet keeping all people safe due to the safety of 'the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 8 2010 - 1:38pm

Are Squid Fisheries Intrinsically Sustainable?

already been established for nearly all the available inshore species of cephalopods*. He suggested that ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 17 2010 - 2:17pm

Response To Alcohol Changes With Dopamine D2

receptor known as cannabinoid type 1 (CB1) in various parts of the brain in all four groups. CB1 receptors ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2010 - 10:00am

CYP2E1 Gene And Alcoholism Linked

alcoholism, the researchers gathered hundreds of pairs of siblings, all college-age, and all with at least one ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2011 - 3:08pm

Stem Cell Research: Plant Biologists Have Been Successful For Decades

is often a matter of optimizing the growth medium; at the very least, nearly all plants can at least ...

Article - L.K. Tuominen - Nov 16 2010 - 10:02pm

How The Brain Knows What The Nose Knows

The neurons associated with learned responses are scattered all over the olfactory bulb, and their ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2011 - 9:18pm

Squid Have Mirror Eyeballs!

to reflect all of the ambient light they possibly can--in other words, broadband reflectance. So what ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Mar 24 2011 - 1:31pm

Karaoke Reveals A Neurological Basis For Embarrassment

don't have any emotional reactions at all. But patients with loss in this brain region seem to lose ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2011 - 9:14am

Anybody With a Boat Want To Visit 130 West, 44 North?

'splain all the details when the paper comes out, but here's a hint: I had to make a lot of squid ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - May 24 2011 - 7:06pm