Biological Science

Climate Change: The Impact on American Gardeners

American gardeners who continue to grow traditional plants may find themselves in trouble as the climate changes. Here are some suggestions on how to adapt.

Caviar hunters push sturgeon to 'extinction's edge'

MOSCOW: After more than 200 million years, sturgeon are losing a battle for survival to poachers who have hunted the queens of caviar to the verge of extinction, a leading environmental group said on Thursday.

Porous China-Myanmar border allowing illegal wildlife trade, experts say

Porous borders are allowing vendors in Myanmar to offer a door-to-door delivery service for illegal wildlife products such as tiger bone wine to buyers in China, according to TRAFFIC's latest snapshot into wildlife trade in China.

Even oysters pay taxes: 'Metabolic taxation' accounts for part of difference between fast and slow growth of animals

In physical, as in financial growth, it's not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe.

Bacteria divide like clockwork

A team of researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego has shown how cell division in a type of bacteria known as cyanobacteria is controlled by the same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep patterns.

SNP and Whole Genome Sequencing Market Research Bundle

This report combines two of Kalorama's latest research volumes DNA Sequencing and SNP Genotyping and Analysis Markets into one package, and includes a preface on the complementary/competitive use of SNP Analysis and whole-genome sequencing on topics and the impact of the results of GWAS on the market.

Two students stumble on new dinosaur (with a killer cousin)

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Radar Reduces Wind Farm Risk To Birds

Scientists at a wind energy group in California said their unique radar technology mitigates the risk of wind farms to migratory bird species.

SU biologists' work with 'glow-in-the-dark' sperm sheds light on sexual selection

This is the reproductive tract (less ovaries) of female D. melanogaster initially mated to GFP-sperm male then remated to RFP-sperm male. Green sperm heads have left the storage organs...

Bacteria divide like clockwork

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A team of researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego has shown how cell division in a type of bacteria known as cyanobacteria is controlled by the same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep patterns.

Derycz Scientific Featured in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Derycz Scientific Featured in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Storms threaten butterflies' winter rest

Los Saucos, Mexico - Dense clouds of migrating monarch butterflies used to snap branches and cast shadows across the forests of central Mexico, but severe weather is posing a new threat to the annual phenomenon.

Ancient Reptile Dined on Dinosaurs (LiveScience.com)

An ancient crocodile-like animal, about twice the length of an SUV, probably dined on sea turtles and dinosaurs, suggests bite-mark evidence and dung droppings.

Bird Bones May be Hollow, But They are Also Heavy

Newswise — For centuries biologists have known that bird bones are hollow, and even elementary school children know that bird skeletons are lightweight to offset the high energy cost of flying. Nevertheless, many people are surprised to learn that bird skeletons do not actually weigh any less than the skeletons of similarly sized mammals. In other words, the skeleton of a two-ounce songbird weighs just as much as the skeleton of a two-ounce rodent.

Mercurial tuna: Study explores sources of mercury to ocean fish

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Ancient Reptile Dined on Dinosaurs

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World votes to keep hunting endangered species

Their sheer size and strength have made them among the most celebrated of endangered species, yet they have all been betrayed — by vested interests at a UN meeting on wildlife protection.

It's a wrap for bacteria

A team of scientists has wrapped bacteria in one-atom thick sheets of carbon known as graphene. The carbon cloak could one day help researchers to image tiny cells at higher resolution than is currently possible, according to preliminary results presented on Monday at the meeting of the American Physical Society in Portland, Oregon.

Press Registration Open for Experimental Biology 2010

Newswise — More than 10,000 biological and biomedical scientists are expected to attend the Experimental Biology 2010 meeting, April 24-28, 2010, at the Anaheim Convention Center. There will be thousands of lectures, symposia and research presentations representing anatomy, pathology, biochemistry, molecular biology, nutrition, pharmacology and physiology.

Researchers Sequence Pea Aphid Genome

Newswise — Ithaca College faculty and student researchers were part of a team of more than 100 collaborators from 30 institutions worldwide in sequencing, for the first time, the genome of the pea aphid, an insect that has become a model system in biology for studying microbial symbiosis and the process of speciation.

Dinosaurs Did Not Gradually Die Out

Non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, and now researchers have proven that this die-off didn't happen over a long period of time.

Mechanism Study of the Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of ?-Aminoallenes: Oxidation State of Active Species and Influence of Counterion

Mechanism Study of the Gold-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization of α-Aminoallenes: Oxidation State of Active Species and Influence of Counterion

Targeted Sequencing in Maize Genome Utilizing a Novel Two-Stage Sequence Capture Method with NimbleGen Arrays and 454 Sequencing Systems

Targeted Sequencing in Maize Genome Utilizing a Novel Two-Stage Sequence Capture Method with NimbleGen Arrays and 454 Sequencing Systems

DOE Joint Genome Institute 5th Annual Meeting on March 24-26, 2010

Researchers from all over the world will be at the Marriott in Walnut Creek for the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute 5th Annual Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting, which will feature genomics research in the fields of clean energy generation and the environment. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Jay Keasling, CEO of the DOE Joint BioEnergy Institute, Steve Pennell of Ceres Inc. on genomics-based gene selection for energy crop improvement and former National Science Foundation director Rita Colwell of the University of Maryland at College Park and Johns Hopkins University on "solving problems with sequences."

BiomedReports: News and FDA Updates for CytoDyn (OTC:CYDY), Human Genome (Nasdaq:HGSI), Idera (Nasdaq:IDRA)

BiomedReports: News and FDA Updates for CytoDyn (OTC:CYDY), Human Genome (Nasdaq:HGSI), Idera (Nasdaq:IDRA)