Life Sciences

Fire Ant Engineers- Using No Leaders, They Are Both Bricklayers And Bricks

99 percent of them had all of their legs attached to their neighbors. The connectivity produces ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 9:04pm

When Is Antibiotic Resistance A Good Thing? In The Gut Microbiome

not others. They then gave all the mice ceftriaxone, a beta-lactam antibiotic, for three days and then ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2014 - 6:01am

Transmitophagy?

supply.  They say the discovery refutes the common assumption that all cells internally isolate, degrade ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 5:58pm

Special Secretion Systems: A Bacterial Ballistic System

contraction process itself. "A comprehensive understanding of the structure and function of all the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2014 - 11:30pm

Worried About Bees? Blame Blood-Sucking Parasites

threats facing UK honeybees. Although present in almost all colonies, high levels of deformed wing disease ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 5:41pm

Bone House: Species Of Wasps Protects Its Home Using Bodies Of Dead Ants

wasp," which in contrast to all other known spider wasp species does not leave the last cell empty but ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 11:10am

Understanding African Elephant Body Fat Might Solve Their Fertility Issues

permission to use the samples. No animals were killed specifically for this study, and all permission was ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2014 - 10:30am

Fungus In Chobani Greek Yogurt Outbreak A Threat To Consumers

has found that this fungus is not harmless after all, but a strain with the ability to cause disease.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 9:34am

Poop Evidence Shows 53 Percent More Adélie Penguins Than Estimated

all of these scattered pieces of information into a global perspective. It shows that Adélie ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 12:41pm

Pluripotency Factor Gene NANOG Is Not Just For Embryonic Stem Cells

extraordinary capacity to make up all of the tissues that become the adult organism, an ability known as ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2014 - 4:01pm