Life Sciences

CSI: A 'Microbial Clock' May Help Determine Time Of Death

"There is no single forensic tool that is useful in all scenarios, as all have some degree of ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2013 - 4:33pm

Agriculture Helps: Soybean Fields Give Rare Birds A New Foothold

only 3 or 4 percent of farmers adopted this approach, it would have a greater effect than all the land ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2014 - 12:10pm

For The Last 600 Million Years, The Sea Anemone Has Been Genetically Half Animal, Half Plant

Praher from the Technau team were able to show that the microRNAs of the sea anemone depict all the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2014 - 10:46am

Study Helps Unravel The Tangled Origin Of Lou Gehrig's Disease

happen," Zhang says. But with millions of cells — all carrying the human disease — to work with, ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2014 - 9:45pm

Watch Out, Mars, We Took You Out Once Before And We Can Do It Again Without Even Trying

of Mars.  All three papers, Survival of Rock-Colonizing Organisms After 1.5 Years in Outer Space, ...

Article - News Staff - May 2 2014 - 2:38pm

Maybe Elizabeth Bathory Was Onto Something: Young Blood Recharges Brains Of Old Mice

and people get older," said Villeda. "This is just from natural aging. We're all ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2014 - 9:53am

Give a hoot. Don’t shoot!

http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/10-2142.1 [6] IBID [7] Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All About Birds. Barred Owl. ...

Blog Post - Norm Benson - May 9 2014 - 9:17am

The Genetic Basis Of Evolved Resistance To GMO Cotton In India

  As a result, pink bollworm has been all but eradicated in the southwestern U.S. Suppression of this ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2014 - 5:28pm

Schistosomiasis- New Urine Test Could Help Millions

associated with infertility, whether this meant less children or nochildren at all   So what do these ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - May 23 2014 - 3:59pm

Specialized Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reduce Rejection Risk

after transplantation. They found that although immune cells called lymphocytes were present in all ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2014 - 12:53am