Life Sciences

Mirids: A Case Study For Indirect Ecological Effects Of GMOs

a great deal of our dwindling material resources (think of all those pipette tips and petri plates!) ...

Article - L.K. Tuominen - Feb 23 2012 - 11:40pm

Aging And Angelman Syndrome-- Is There A Link?

just losing Ube3A at all synapse.  This raises the intriguing possibility that Ube3A is lost at some ...

Article - Kathy Murphy - May 30 2010 - 2:40pm

No Free Lunch In Nature – The Dilemma Of Plants Fighting Infections

bacteria and fungi to insects such as aphids. However, not all varieties have this variant. While it occurs ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2010 - 1:01am

How Do Hummingbirds Hum? A Study In Metabolic Respiration

metabolic rates known in the vertebrate world. There is a cost to all this energy production though. Even ...

Article - Keith Zimmerman - Jun 2 2010 - 7:10pm

MAO-A Enzyme Implicated In Postpartum Depression

either had children a long time ago or had no children. The MAO-A increase could be shown in all brain ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2010 - 11:43am

Overselling segmentation

segmentation come from? Is it possible that they all inherited this feature from a very distant common ancestor ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Jul 27 2010 - 7:59am

How Sensitive Is Your Pig? New Technique Registers Swine 'Optimism'

mildly unpleasant plastic bag, did not approach for a treat. "It's a response we see all the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2010 - 10:42am

Jellyfish Reporting By Citizen Scientists In Malta

already been identified all around the islands, including the the surface-dwelling blue button (Porpita ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Aug 11 2010 - 8:05am

Collective Immunity: Multi-Attribute Optimization Of Pediatric Vaccine Policies

That's a byproduct of one-size-fits-all policy for stockpiles. Although it's easy and simple to do, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2010 - 10:51am

Found: 13 Genes Linked To Body Mass

regions that were the most variable, all chemically marked by DNA methylation.  The DNA methylation ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2010 - 6:56pm