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Plants use circadian rhythms to prepare for battle with inse...

"When you walk past plants, they don't look like they're doing anything," said Janet Braam, an investigator on the new study, which appears this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "It's [...]

Posted On : Feb, 14 2012 | Comments : 0

Biologists worry about fate of endangered toad

BASTROP, Texas (AP) — Mike Forstner tromps along the mucky edge of a pond, trilling loudly as he sweeps the beam of his flashlight over the bank. He's hoping for an answering call from an endangered Houston toad, but he hea [...]

Posted On : Feb, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Computational Biology Illuminates How Cells Change Gears

Bioinformatics researchers from UC San Diego just moved closer to unlocking the mystery of how human cells switch from “proliferation mode” to “specialization mode.” This computational biology work from the Jacobs [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2012 | Comments : 0

BIOL 102: Introductory Biology of Cells

Term and Exam Dates Summer term (May-June): May 7 - June 18, 2012 Final examinations held: June 21 - 22, 2012 Course Description An introduction to the basic themes and concepts of modern biology spanning organizational levels f [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Cell-Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Members of the Department are active participants in an inter-departmental Gap Junction Group. The research efforts of the Group are designed to examine the role of gap junctions in health in disease with special interests in human diseas [...]

Posted On : Feb, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Cellecta (CELL001)

Cellecta Inc. provides custom and contract solutions for high-throughput genetic screening needs. Their research organisation focuses primarily on developing and implementing flexible and scalable broad-based screening and analysis approa [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Studying Biology Cells

In biology, which is the study of living organisms, the cell is the most important unit. Biology cells are the basis for every biological branch. Cellular biology is the backbone of every type of biology. In fact, no matter what type of b [...]

Posted On : Jan, 30 2012 | Comments : 0

Model Organisms: Cell Biology and Genetics

Model organisms are used to study basic mechanisms common to many forms of life and to experiment with biological processes that may be difficult or unethical to study in humans. Model organisms are usually chosen for some combination of [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2012 | Comments : 0

Metabolites Involved in Chronic Pain

An analysis of the metabolic profile of a rat model of chronic pain has identified novel dysregulated metabolites that may underlie the condition, according to a study published today (January 22) in Nature Chemical Biology. If the result [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Biologists replicate key evolutionary step in life on Earth ...

More than 500 million years ago, single-celled organisms on Earth's surface began forming multi-cellular clusters that ultimately became plants and animals. Just how that happened is a question that has eluded evolutionary biologists. [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Yeast evolves to multicellular variety in 60 days in the lab

The origin of multicellular life is one of the most important milestones in earth's history. And despite it happening independently nearly two dozen times in the past, very little is known about the way the initial evolution from unic [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Evolving Multicellularity

In as little as 100 generations, yeast selected to settle more quickly through a test tube evolved into multicellular, snowflake-like clusters, according to a paper published today (January 16) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0