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Plant sets off “SOS” for plant defense when it gets hurt
When herbivore, such as an insect, nibbles a plant leaf, the plant sets off an "SOS" or distress signal as one of the... Read More
Who Gets Expensive Cancer Drugs? A Tale of Two Nations
The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while... Read More
How Toxoplasma Gondii Gets Noticed
January 19, 2009 — Researchers provide insight into how Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite of people and other animals,... Read More
Watch Your Step When The Going Gets Rough
December 2005 — Placing your foot accurately is a complicated process. If something moves where you plan to place your... Read More
When the music stops, the brain gets going
IN STANFORD STUDY, SILENT PAUSES LEND CLUES ON MENTAL PROCESSES While music may soothe the savage breast, the brain... Read More
Faulty DNA Replication Linked To Neurological Diseases
Lengthy sequences of DNA -- with their component triplet of nucleotides repeated hundreds, even thousands of times -- are... Read More
What Gets A Female’s Attention, At Least A Songbird’s
Male songbirds produce a subtly different tune when they are courting a female than when they are singing on their own.... Read More
UT Southwestern gets new cryo-electron microscope
University among nation’s elite in understanding human cell mechanics DALLAS – Aug. 27, 2003 – There's a powerful... Read More
World’s Only Captive Hairy-nosed Otter Gets New Home
Dara, the world's only captive hairy-nosed otter, is one of the rarest of otter species. He was recently... Read More
Mars Rover device gets new mission on Earth
Mars Rover at the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Va. Credit:... Read More
Mitosis Gets Harder Thanks To New Gene Discovery
April 2008 -- A biological process taught to every student studying biology has just become a little more complicated... Read More
DNA Gets Kinky Easily At The Nanoscale
Scientists have answered a long-standing molecular stumper regarding DNA: How can parts of such a rigid molecule bend and... Read More
Computer game shows how brain responds to approaching threat
For the first time, a team of scientists, with the aid of a computer game, have found how the brain’s response to fear... Read More
Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics by J. Tisdall
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Biology may not be so complex after all, Emory physicist finds
Biophysicist identifies parameters for biochemical networks, distills system behavior into simple equivalent... Read More
Why Don’t All Moles Progress To Melanoma?
Why Don't All Moles Progress To Melanoma? Biopsied tissue from a human mole shows... Read More
Does Environment Influence Genes? Researcher Gives Hard Thoughts On Soft Inheritance
August 8, 2006 — Organisms, including humans, all inherit DNA from generation to generation, what biologists call hard... Read More
CRISPR DIY – biohacking genes at home
Have you ever thought of changing yourself for the better -- genetically-speaking? Lately, CRISPR company has been selling a... Read More
Heat Damage To "Photosynthesis Engine" In Symbiotic Algae May Be Among Major Causes Of Coral Bleaching
ATHENS, Ga.-- Scientists worldwide have been perplexed for more than a decade by extensive bleaching in the ecologically... Read More
Natural selection
Natural Selection Definition What is natural selection in biology? Natural selection is defined as a process in nature... Read More
Mitochondrial DNA not just from moms but also from dads?
If one wants to trace down lineage, that person could turn to the cell's powerhouse, the mitochondrion. This organelle... Read More
Beekeeping for Dummies by H. Blackiston
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Fragmentation
Fragmentation Definition What is fragmentation? In general, fragmentation refers to the state or the process of breaking... Read More
Protein folding physics modeled at the atomic level
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 14, 2002 - Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of... Read More
Catabolism
Catabolism Definition Catabolism is the branch of the metabolic process that breaks down complex, big molecules into... Read More
Angiosperm
Angiosperms Definition What is an angiosperm? An angiosperm is a plant that produces flowers. The angiosperms, also... Read More
Phosphodiester bond
Phosphodiester Bond Definition Phosphodiester bonds are the backbone of the strands of nucleic acid present in the life... Read More
Incomplete dominance
Incomplete Dominance Definition After Gregor Mendel discovered inheritance laws, the term ''incomplete dominance'' was... Read More
Changes to embryos can elicit change in adult fish
Researchers uncover genetic foundation of fish jaws Photo of the lower jaw system of Chilotilapia rhoadesii showing how... Read More
CRISPR caused gene damage? Rise and pitfall of the gene-editor
CRISPR as a gene-editing tool made a prodigious leap forward in science. In 2015, it was heralded as Science’s 2015... Read More
Easily grossed out? You’re more likely a conservative, says Cornell psychologist
ITHACA, N.Y. – Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by... Read More
Researchers Discover Why Some Athletes’ Performances Fail To Improve On A Live-High, Train-Low Regimen
DALLAS - December 30, 1998 - Exercise physiology researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have learned why... Read More
How the Neuron Sprouts Its Branches
December 12, 2005 -- DURHAM, N.C. - Neurobiologists have gained new insights into how neurons control growth of the... Read More
Streams, rivers, springs and rain
New images from Saturn’s moon Titan show familiar Earth-like features including springs, rivers, streams and rainfall –... Read More
Chinese medicinal compound stops formation of cysts in polycystic kidney disease in lab
Using a compound from a centuries-old Chinese traditional medicine, Yale University researcher Dr. Craig Crews has been able... Read More
Bacteria Pack Their Own Demise
August 1, 2009 — Numerous pathogens contain an 'internal time bomb', a deadly mechanism that can be used against... Read More
Scientists complete DNA sequencing and analysis of multiple fruit fly genomes
Large-scale comparative analysis of genomes from closely-related fly species reveals important evolutionary clues; yields... Read More