Life Sciences

Visualizing Algae-Eating Viruses From Space

bottom of the marine food web, providing the ultimate source of all organic matter in the sea. They do ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 23 2014 - 11:30am

The Chicxulub Meteorite Killed The Dinosaurs But Made Forests Great

a meteorite impacting Earth, you might imagine all species are equally likely to die," Blonder said. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2014 - 4:07pm

Cell Conversion And How DNA 'Bias' May Keep Some Diseases In Circulation

Lachance said this finding, which they observed in all five populations, helped the researchers rule out ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2014 - 9:08am

Superspreaders: How Disease Propagates In Infected Animals- And Antibiotics Help

demonstrated that while all the animals harbored the pathogenic bacteria in their gut, the superspreaders ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 11:34am

Here's A Brainwave – Magnetic Pulses Could Treat Autism

biomedical interventions in ASD When it comes to ASD, there will not be a “one size fits all” approach to ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2015 - 11:55am

Mystery Virus That Turned Starfish Into Goo Identified

rapidly wasting spread among my animals, with death the ultimate outcome, all in the span of few days. In ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 19 2014 - 7:00pm

Archaea Can Survive Anywhere, Now They Might Be A Source Of Antibacterial Drugs

action and remarkably jumped from bacteria to all major branches of life. They discovered it in an ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2014 - 11:13am

Yeast Cells Can Cure Themselves Of Prions Associated With Alzheimer's

eLife. "When you get Hyde, all the prion protein that gets made after that is folded in that bad ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2014 - 5:32pm

Neutrophils- How The Immune System's ATVs Get Around

body's all terrain vehicles, move in these confined spaces?  A team from Brown University's School ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2014 - 1:30pm

The Invasion Of The Intersex Demon Shrimp

just leave things alone – after all, does it really matter to the ecosystem if one tiny crustacean ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 8 2015 - 2:30pm