Blogs Posts in Biology category; 612 blog posts

The Sins of Syn Bio

Here's a grim prediction to chew on. This biotech craze dubbed "synthetic biology"—where hipster geeks design quirky life-forms: That technology is going to wind up costing lives—likely a lot of them. I'm no [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Skin Cells Converted into Beating Heart Cells

Scientists have successfully converted adult skin cells directly into beating heart cells. This conversion was carried out without going through the laborious process of generating embryonic like stem cells. The powerful general tec [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Seralini seeks to dilute biology education

Taking a page from the modern creationist movements that seek to weaken high school education in evolutionary biology, a French group is looking to do the same to biology classes – but now it’s genetic engineering that is the [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Biologists grow beating heart cells from mice cells

Biologists have grown beating heart cells directly from connective tissues in mice, skipping a previously required middle step -- the creation of stem cells. In the Nature Cell Biology study, led by Jem Efe of the Scripps Research Instit [...]

Posted On : Jan, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Museum to host presentation on shrimp biology

The Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn will host Al Stokes, manager of the Waddell Mariculture Center in Bluffton, at 3 p.m. March 8 for a presentation on shrimp biology. Stokes, a biologist with 3 years experience, will cover shrimp [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Workhorse of biology gets a virus – that's good news

A rather unusual worm has been found in a rotting apple in France – a nematode suffering from a viral infection. This is the first time researchers have identified a population of Caenorhabditis elegans that has been naturally infe [...]

Posted On : Jan, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Intelligent microscopy

The sight of a researcher sitting at a microscope for hours, painstakingly searching for the right cells, may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new software created by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) i [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Giving DNA A Good Yank

There’s more than one way to overstretch DNA, a new experiment suggests (J. Am. Chem. Soc., DOI: 10.1021/ja108952v). The finding recasts a 15-year-old debate on double-stranded DNA’s mechanical properties and might make it ea [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

New Molecule Discovery may Prevent Brain Cells Neurodegenera...

A recently discovered molecule is capable of making brain cells resistant to programmed cell death (apoptosis). The discovery was made by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The study is the first to find a mamm [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Polygamy produces more virile offspring

Having multiple sexual partners leads to more fertile offspring, according to a new West Australian study. The research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that sperm from polygamous mice [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Bank official calls on biology lessons

A senior Bank of England official has for the first time made the cover of Nature, the leading research journal, with a paper that examines the lessons that financial regulators can learn from biology and other sciences. Andrew [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Jason gets down to biology

JASON Down had the time of his life at a science camp in December, but could be set to eclipse it this week. The 16-year-old Busselton Senior High School (BSHS) student, who will be in Year 12 this year, is on work placement with GeoCatc [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

The biology of a record-breaker

cFor the past four years, John Brenkus, 39, has been the host of a TV show in America called Sport Science. Being American, it's primarily concerned with the biggest and the best, and has an endless obsession with statistical data. W [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Biology student gets $2500 scholarship

Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) sophomore Kristin Johnson has been awarded a $2,500 scholarship by the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA), a nonprofit group that gives the annual award to a graduate or undergraduate student [...]