Life Sciences

Light In The Dark: The Secret World Of Microbial Life In Undersea Volcanoes

researchers found that growth measurements for the organisms were about the same. All grew at the same rate ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2012 - 2:09pm

Why Europe’s Pleistocene Hippos Shrank To Pygmy Size

feature of European wildlife for about 1.4 million years, all through the climatically turbulent time of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2012 - 11:00am

Whose Brains Trigger Easier For Violent Behavior, Males Or Females?

Brain structure, function, and connectivity can all differ between men and women, affecting how they may ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 2:32pm

Does The Red Queen Hypothesis Makes Species Resilient?

evolutionary biology. After all, asexual females—which exist among freshwater snails and some other ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 5:30pm

OCD, Compulsive Eaters And Addicts Share Common Pattern And Brain Structure

researchers demonstrated that all of the disorders were connected by a shift away from goal-directed ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2014 - 11:00am

Drawing Stem Cells Out Of Their Niche

Carl Gustav Carus In their model, human blood stem cells can expand and differentiate into all cell ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 12:44pm

Genetically Engineered Fruit Flies Could Save Crops Better Than Sterilization

Ltd. Credit: Oxitec Ltd "Of all of the current techniques used to control these flies, SIT is ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 6:30am

Notch Signaling And New Blood: Tracing The Beginnings Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

focused on the Notch signaling pathway, a system found in all animals and known to be critical to the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2014 - 11:00am

Media Multitaskers Have Less Gray Matter

resonance imaging (fMRI) to look at the brain structures of 75 adults, who had all answered a questionnaire ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2014 - 8:30am

Peptide Mimic: A Universal Ebola Drug Target

used as a drug target in the discovery of anti-Ebola agents that are effective against all known ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2014 - 5:01pm