Life Sciences

A Side-Effect Of Antibiotics May Not Be A Side-effect At All, It May Be A Feature

this side-effect- the production of biofilms- is not a side-effect after all, suggesting that bacteria ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2015 - 4:26pm

Epigenetic: The Imprinter Of All Maladies

manner of discussions about heredity. And all manner of crackpots slap “epigenetics” on their fringy ...

Article - Michael Eisen - May 11 2016 - 12:58pm

Regeneration- It's All Fun And Games Even If Someone Loses A Limb

reorder themselves into all of the necessary tissues to create a new articulated limb, which is formed as ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Apr 10 2009 - 11:35pm

Part Tangerine, Part Orange, Part Mandarin, All New Fruit

grown to include all aspects of agricultural production in arid and semi-arid subtropical lands. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2009 - 5:32pm

Systems Biology: Still New After All These Years

phenomena was revealed. Within a few decades essentially all of the basic mechanisms and most of the ...

Article - Michael White - Aug 26 2009 - 9:59am

Constant Rewrites: Your Memory Isn't All That Accurate

an existing memory. All that editing happens in the hippocampus, they write. The hippocampus, in this ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 6:51pm

Whale Sex: It's All In The Hips

bones themselves for study. However, if all specimens were recorded using Dean and Dines’ system, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 9:33am

Right Angles Are All Wrong For Tree Frog Adhesion

Tree frogs have the unique ability to stick to smooth surfaces even when they are tilted well beyond the vertical- some small tree frogs can even adhere when completely upside down. Conversely when walking or jumping they can detach their toe pads easily. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2007 - 12:08am

Do All Males Lie And Cheat? Yes. In Crayfish, Anyway

Intimidation and threats are common throughout society, whether it’s in the school playground, sporting arena or boardroom. Threatening behaviour is equally widespread among non-human animals. Individuals signal their superior strength to competitors to o ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2007 - 10:24am

What Is The Function Of All Those Proteins?

There are hundreds of thousands of proteins for which amino acid sequence data are available, but whose structure and function remain unknown. Now a research team, led by University of Illinois biochemistry professor John A. Gerlt, has devised a method to ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 10:45pm