Source: New Scientist
A DRUG that triggers the birth of neurons in rat brains has opened up the possibility of a new treatment for Parkinson's disease.
Source: in.news.yahoo.com
"Researchers at the University of Cambridge say they that have discovered older meerkats teach their pups how to handle prey.
Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
One of the hottest debates among dinosaur experts is whether the ancient reptiles were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Now a new study has found that the answer may have varied with the size of the dinosaur.
Source: jp.dk
A discovery of several thousand sun perch in a lake near the Jutland town of Silkeborg is shedding light on lake eco-systems. Scientists had believed for a long time that Danish lakes were too cold for the North American freshwater fish to breed.
Source: lostkingdoms.com
This is a scary bird indeed - 3m tall! If you don't know why this is interesting, see Fossil dig uncovers 'killer' kangaroos. Apparently Australia was once a rather more frighening place.
Source: sciencedaily.com
How is the deep sea like a desert island? It sounds like a child's riddle, but it's actually a serious scientific question with implications for both terrestrial and marine biology.
Source: eurekalert.org
Researchers have developed a new model that explains how spiders are able to 'fly' or 'parachute' into new territory on single strands of silk - sometimes covering distances of hundreds of miles over open ocean.
Source: biology-direct.com
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Source: sciencedaily.com
The fate of cells that go on to form the face, skull and nerve centers of the head and neck in vertebrates is determined much earlier in development than previously thought, and is independent of interaction with other forming tissues, according to a recent study published in the …
Source: genome.wellcome.ac.uk
By recovering and sequencing intact DNA from an especially ancient Neandertal specimen, researchers have found evidence suggesting that the genetic diversity among Neandertals was higher than previously thought.
Source: newscientist.com
The debate has raged - were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded? New analysis suggests a kind of mixture of the two, depending on the size of the animal.
Source: eurekalert.org
New research designed to build scientific understanding of fruit genes could revolutionise the way foods, cosmetics and perfumes are created.
Biology and Genetics ⋆ (link) Scientists crack DNA replication mystery. ⋆ (link) A new study shows that the capacity for empathy, previously suspected but unproven even among higher primates, is also evident in lower mammals.
Source: dsc.discovery.com
A baboon hand gesture appears to send the message "go ahead, make my day" to other baboons — suggesting that gesturing may have been a precursor to human language, according to a new study.
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Franklin M Harold, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, and author of "The Way of the Cell" (2001), writes: We assume, then, that cells are material systems that arose by some sort of evolutionary process four billion years ago her …
Source: newscientist.com
THE arid heart of the Atacama desert in Chile is the only completely lifeless place on Earth - at least it was until the discovery of a new form of microbe living there. It survives in a unique way, using moisture sucked from the air by salty rocks.
Source: biologynews.net
Reef fish share genetic connections across what Darwin termed an 'impassable barrier', 5000km of deep ocean separating the eastern and central Pacific, according to a report by Smithsonian scientists in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Source: today.reuters.com
Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.
Source: eurekalert.org
Human activities have caused some 500 bird species worldwide to go extinct over the past five millennia, and 21st-century extinction rates likely will accelerate to approximately 10 additional species per year unless societies take action to reverse the trend, according to a new …
Source: rxpgnews.com
Humans could learn a lot from ants, according to research carried out by a team of scientists at the University of Sheffield.
Source: eurekalert.org
The first gene known to control the internal clock of humans and other mammals works much differently than previously believed, according to a study by Utah and Michigan researchers.
Source: engadget.com
Recently, grad student Wim van Eck turned to crickets to add a bit more unpredictability to a game of Pac-Man, casting them in the role of the lowly ghosts against a human-controlled Pac.
Source: sciencedaily.com
A new study by McGill University professor of psychology Dr. Jeffrey Mogil shows that the capacity for empathy, previously suspected but unproven even among higher primates, is also evident in lower mammals.
Source: biologynews.net
Gardeners and farmers have used the plant hormone auxin for decades, but how plants produce and distribute auxin has been a long-standing mystery. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found the solution, which has valuable applications in agriculture.
Source: biologynews.net
A team of scientists led by Professor Nick Dixon at the Research School of Chemistry at The Australian National University have cracked one of the great DNA mysteries.