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Cell Study Finds a Way to Slow Ravages of Age

Scientists may have found a way to put off some conditions of aging, according to a study in which they postponed or even prevented such afflictions as cataracts and wrinkle-inducing fat loss in mice by removing cells that had stopped div [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Engineered bacteria armed to fight infection

Scientists have taken a common bacteria found in the body and engineered it to a form that will seek out and destroy a potentially harmful microbe. The team at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed harmless E. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Asian ‘phoenix’ lived with dinosaurs

Palaeontologists said on Wednesday they had found the fossilised remains of a giant bird that lived in Central Asia more than 65 million years ago, a finding which challenges theories about the diversity of early birds. The creature may h [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

The eye and seeing

Almost all living things are sensitive to light. You know for example, that a clam closes its shell when a shadow falls across it. This action is made possible by a number of special cells lining the edge of the shell. Light fall [...]

Posted On : Jul, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

A Breakthrough in Backyard Biology

ESSEX – For much of the past year, Doug Bonham has holed up in his Essex home, building circuit boards and dreaming about birds. His last paycheck came last April, around the time he lost his electronics job in Seattle. Since then, [...]

Posted On : May, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Smithsonian To Preserve Great Barrier Reef Cells

The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is helping to build a frozen repository of living coral cells from the Great Barrier Reef that could restore a species in the future. The Front Royal, Va.-based institute announced Wednesday [...]

Posted On : May, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Silk-Oozing Feet Give Tarantulas a Gravity-Defying Grip

Tarantulas are too heavy to stick to glass, yet the largest spiders in the world regularly seem to defy physics. The trick: Dozens of silk-oozing spigots on their feet spin near-invisible safety lines, keeping the colossal spiders stuck w [...]

Posted On : May, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

SFA shows off biology dept. to E. Texas students

More than 400 East Texas high school students walked the hallways of the Stephen F. Austin State University biology department. They saw things they can't see with the naked eye. They held things big enough to creep them out. For 2 [...]

Posted On : May, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

The world's top 100 universities ranked for medicine, biolog...

Harvard university has swept the board ranking highest in the world's top 100 universities for medicine, biological sciences and psychology with Cambridge and Oxford following closely behind. Once again, the elite American univer [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Take a nap — hibernating animals live longer!

Compared with the trudge to work through several feet of snow, winter hibernation sounds like a pretty cushy lifestyle. But it's not a dislike of cold, wet feet that drives some animals into a wintry slumber. It seems they hibernate [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

New Test Warns Couples of Genetic Illnesses

So-called recessively inherited disorders, such as Tay-Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis and red blood cell disorders known as thalessemias are rare. But when they strike newborns, they can be devastating, accounting for an estimated [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Light pollution screws up songbirds’ sex lives

Keeping the lights on when romance strikes is a definite mood-killer – when it comes to birds, says a new study. In today’s increasingly urbanized world, the lights in many places are always on, and that’s having a real [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

DIY genetic test firms face new rules

Tests are offered in private clinics and over the internet with the aim of predicting the risk of disease later in life. However, there have been warnings of firms making bogus claims about their tests, with several having little basis i [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Genetic changes linked to diet, alcohol could predict breast...

Epigenetic changes to DNA in breast cancers are directly linked with diet, alcohol, and tumour size, and could hence give a glimpse of the severity of the disease, according to researchers from Brown University and the University of Cali [...]