The finding detailed in the journal Frontiers in Zoology earned a team of international scientists the Ig Nobel in Biology.
We found the earliest evidence for a parasite that causes Schistosomiasis in humans said study co-author Dr. Piers Mitchell a biological anthropologist at the University of Cambridge in England.
and the other part of the body will extend forward said Greg Byrnes an integrative biologist at Siena College in New york. It's like an accordion that's opening and closing.
Byrnes and Jayne detailed their work today (Aug 19) in the journal Biology Letters. Follow Joseph Castro on Twitter.
Varner a doctoral student in biology at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City was unaware of the fire until she returned to her field site on Pinnacle Ridge in 2012 and discovered it was destroyed.
which maintain their yield under environmental and biological stresses. This will be the key to safeguarding our wheat crop in the years ahead.
Op-Ed & Insights Last month I was asked to write an essay for a forthcoming issue of the journal Current Biology on the biology of fun.
Based on a field study of Golden Marmots in Pakistan's Khunjerab National park UCLA biologist Daniel Blumsteinsuggested that play might expose individuals to predation.
University of Idaho biologist John Byersreports on a few field studies that show that play can be risky including observations of young lambs falling to their death while playing.
One biologist recently conducted a census of organisms at fairy circles. His results detailed in the journal Science last year revealed a species of sand termite Psammotermes allocerus lived at the majority of patches.
Boucher a biologist pointed out that although the biggest emissions reduction would obviously come from becoming a vegan replacing beef with poultry would get you more than 90 percent of the way there
and gain insight into the special biological and cultural qualities of the region. Organised from the bottom up ecotourism can be sensitive to local concerns
The research was detailed this week in the journals Genetics and Genome Biology. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
If a species is missing one of those two parts then the species can't taste sweet at all said Maude Baldwin a doctoral student of evolutionary biology at Harvard university and one of the researchers on the study.
</p><p>Perhaps six or seven months of the year these snakes are living thirsty said Coleman Sheehy III an evolutionary biologist at the University of Florida
I really do think it helps with some of the major insect problems that we have Robert Venette a biologist with the U s. Forest Service in Minnesota told NPR.
Half of them are strict conservation areas some appropriate for tourists others only for biological research.
and ecology Sandra Rehan lead NHAES researcher and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of New hampshire's College of Life sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) said in a statement.
In 2009 Spanish biologists used frozen tissue to clone a Pyrenean ibex. The clone only lived for seven minutes
and eventually fossilized said lead study author Camilla Crifã a biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama during the study.
We were stepping over all these dead trees on the ground that had been killed by the initial blast Tim Mousseau a professor of biology at the University of South carolina said in a statement.
and Anders Møller of the Universitã Paris-Sud have made ongoing investigations into the biology of radioactive areas like Chernobyl and Fukushima Japan.
Behavioral psychologists pharmacologists physicians epidemiologists and biologists among others also should weigh in. Protecting our families from harm should not be trumped by invented theories about lost pleasure.
Spisak s study tells us about a significant biological finding that needs to be analysed carefully.
#Once Endangered, Bald eagle Populations Soar Bryan Watts is director of the Center for Conservation Biology a joint program of the College of William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Since that time biologists have learned a lot about eagles. At the Center for Conservation Biology new technology has helped us understand the lives
and movements of individual eagles at a level that was just about unimaginable 38 years ago. We've been able to deploy nest cameras to watch the birds'chick-raising habits and their family life.
Phage bio-control products are already available commercially. One product called Listshield sold by Intralytix controls Listeria monocytogenes
Sulakvelidze added that phage bio-control products are an alternative to chemical washes and irradiation two mechanisms commonly used to kill bacteria in ready-to-eat food products.
Some scientists even say Earth's biology suggests the possibility of thinking plants somewhere in the universe.
Chamovitz calls rootedness the primary principle of plant biology. Plants do make movements however they just do it by growing Gilroy said.
Doctors know of no biological mechanism to enable this. Detox in this regard is more of a marketing concept than a biological one Talalay said.
Yet good health can be maintained not through periodic detoxification but rather by preventing toxins from taking hold through a healthy diet.
and spreads across the greater Mekong region rosewood species might face not only commercial extinction but also final biological extinction.
Joel Berger a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and chair of wildlife biology at the University of Montana posted the picture on Twitter from eastern Russia's remote Wrangel Island.
We think that by and large the fighting is a really significant biological event for them and that's probably why they are not so common.
Patagonian pumas kill around 50 percent more prey than their North american counterparts according to cougar biologist Mark Elbroch.
and all by following the trail of a plant biologist who had collected maple branches there more than 40 years ago during the height of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam war.
I became extremely grateful to scores of plant biologists like the one who archived a foot-long maple twig from Hill Forest in 1971.
Can we do it for functions like pollination and biological control of pests? I hope we can start watching urban ecosystems for problem insects
Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb. 12692. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues and debates and become part of the discussion on Facebook Twitter and Google+.
While studying the impacts of wolf snares on moose Alaska biologist Craig Gardner reported in the journal Alces:
Based on my 15 years of experience releasing nearly 40 moose from snares and discussions with other Alaskan biologists
Biological scaffolds when they degrade release signal molecules said Dr. Stephen Badylak of the University of Pittsburgh who led the study.
Biologist Sean Hoban uses mathematical and computational tools to develop guidelines for ecologists and others engaged in this work.
A postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis Hoban helps determine how many seeds are needed
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesisfield of Study: Computational biology What is your field
and why does it inspire you? As a computational biologist I work in several fields of life science primarily in ecology and genetics and particularly with plants.
I use simulations and statistical tools to solve problems of big data or answer questions about complex systems such as will species be able to move northward as the climate warms?
Researchers from computer science biology and economics are collaborating on these problems. As for the topic I've been enamored increasingly with plants over the years.
though it's not yet clear why males of this species have the biology to spontaneously produce milk.
Biological and ecological factors may drive emergence of the virus from the forest but clearly the sociopolitical landscape dictates where it goes from there an isolated case
Grzywacz is working on spraying a biological control agent a nucleopolyhedrovirus, which has been tested in Tanzania. The virus attacks the worms every year,
brought together biologists, policymakers, and environmental organization representatives to address controversy arising from a 2006 paper.
William Laurance, a conservation biologist at STRI, notes that the presence of seedlings doesn't necessarily translate into stable long-term populations.
Asner's and Wright's data will appear an upcoming special issue of Conservation Biology.
say researchers seeking to resolve a mystery that has puzzled biologists for several years. Instead, they believe,
says reproductive biologist Justin St john of the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, who is developing mouse-pig hybrid embryos.
says cell biologist Jose Cibelli of Michigan State university in East Lansing. Meanwhile, there may be other ways to reprogram a cell with a different species'DNA
notes embryologist Anthony Perry at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. Is there really only one path that will give you a pup?
Nature Newsone of the most famous experiments in biology isn't the solid piece of work it's usually portrayed as,
an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council's Do  ana Biological Station in Seville.
Nature Newsafter decades of searching, plant biologists have found a way to selectively snip out one gene
says David Ow, a plant biologist at the US Department of agriculture Plant Gene expression Center in Albany, California.
Plant biologists have long been frustrated by the lack of a simple method for either deleting a specific gene from the genome or replacing it with another gene.
the fast-growing weed with a small genome favoured by many plant biologists as a model system,
says Joseph Ecker, a plant biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La jolla, California.
Meanwhile, the other study1 is the work of a research team led by Daniel Voytas, a plant biologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a member of the Zinc Finger Consortium,
a plant biologist at Karlsruhe University in Germany who is developing zinc-finger nucleases for use in Arabidopsis.
says Wilhelm Gruissem, a plant biologist at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich. Now you can target the transgene to a specific location.
But Harris Lewin, a genome biologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who also assisted with the analysis of the genome
Geneticist Michel Georges of the University of Li  ge in Belgium worries that the focus on improving agricultural herds could cause researchers to stop investigating the biology underlying those improvements.
Nature Newssufficient efforts are not being made to protect 10%of the world's forests by 2010 as agreed under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) according to a new analysis1.
The results, published today in PLOS Biology could bring plant breeders a step closer to generating crops that produce their seeds completely asexually a process called apomixis1.
says Ueli Grossniklaus, a plant developmental biologist at the University of Zurich, but one practical limitation is the reliance upon mutations in three different genes.
the results were published in Global Change Biology. 2 It basically provided a benchmark map of the biomass carbon in the Amazon,
In the next few weeks, Mohan and her colleagues, including Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole,
although this is also badly needed to biological nitrogen fixation by legumes and organic matter. We need to reconsider how to use Africa's intercropping system with these new high-yielding varieties,
When the environment changes, the very range of responses that previously constituted'adaptability'may become an evolutionary liability instead, notes Donna Holmes, an evolutionary biologist at Washington state University in Pullman,
Martha Groom, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Bothell, who was not involved with the study,
wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex) has been an enigma to biologists for a long time. Now, a team led by Elizabeth Dumont at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst has discovered that the oddly-shaped skulls include jaws that are more powerful than not just other fruit bats but also much larger predatory bats,
the study shows that it is possible to enhance biological pest control. People have been thinking about this method of pest control for a very long time,
John Pickett, a biological chemist from the Rothamsted Research institute in Harpenden, UK, is pleased also that negative environmental effects of pesticides can be avoided.
Nelson says that the biological effects of climate change on crops will work their way through the agricultural market,
made by Regen Biologics of Hackensack, New jersey, but FDA officials approved it last December after lobbying from four New jersey congressmen.
That was the recommendation of a National Research Council report released last week, entitled Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins.
n Kermez, a Mexican biologist who has served in top ministerial posts and is a former rector of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico city.
Nature Newsplant biologists have something special to be thankful for this US Thanksgiving day. The genome of maize (corn) a staple crop first introduced by Native americans to the European settlers centuries ago has finally been sequenced.
a molecular biologist who studies maize at Stanford university in Palo alto, California, and is an author of one of the Public library of Science Genetics papers3.
A combination of two gene regions, known as rbcl and matk, will be used as a'bar code'to uniquely identify every species of land plant, biologists announced last week at the Third International Barcode of Life Conference
says mouse cloning pioneer Teruhiko Wakayama of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan.
says Colman, now at the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore. Still, Lee's cloned
Lee has cloned dogs with RNL Bio, a Seoul-based company spun out from Seoul National University
This includes building a processing plant to produce an experimental biological control agent, a nucleopolyhedrovirus,
The issue also included a four-page report by two evolutionary biologists, who disputed Williamson's hypothesis on the basis of published genome size data.
The index is calculated based on an area's biological potential to store carbon and the local opportunity costs of protecting forests rather than cutting them down for timber,
BMC Biol. 7, 79; 2009). ) Until now, she says, that link had been circumstantial. There has been a lot of hearsay around gut microbiota
says James Liao, a metabolic engineer and synthetic biologist at the University of California, Los angeles. LS9's calculations, performed with the help of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois,
says Hopi Hoekstra, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an expert on pigmentation in mammals.
says Daniel Costa, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California,
says Susan Fisher, a stem-cell biologist at the University of California, San francisco, who recently submitted ten lines derived from pre-blastocyst embryos to the NIH.
Biologist Axel Ullrich took the medicine prize for his research in cancer (he co-developed trastuzumab,
Federal biologists said that pika, which live in mountainous parts of ten western US states, would be able to migrate
when eminent biologists established influential guidelines on experiments in the budding field of genetic engineering. Despite disagreement on when  or indeed whether the technologies should be used,
In a paper published today in Science1, lead author Samuel Wasser, head of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle,
says Michael Clinton, a developmental biologist at the University of Edinburgh in Midlothian, UK who led the study.
Plant biologists fear for cress project: Nature Newsthe brilliant career of a diminutive weed may have hit a snag.
Arabidopsis thaliana has been the darling of plant biologists for some 30 years because of its small genome and rapid growth,
Annotation of the Arabidopsis genome the linking of biological data to sequence information is considered now among the highest quality of all sequenced genomes.
Then there were biological obstacles. Arabidopsis has many large gene families whose constituent genes have overlapping functions a common phenomenon in plants.
says Philip Benfey, a plant biologist at Duke university in Durham, North carolina. The reality was complicated much more.
In 2008, the project team drafted a proposed Arabidopsis 2020 programme that would focus on systems biology,
Raikhel adds that researchers have begun only just to tackle some key biological questions in Arabidopsis,
he notes that the extensive data already available for Arabidopsis make it the best species to advance plant systems biology.
says ICOMM leader Mitch Sogin of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. See go. nature. com/Pnstez for more.
slideshow and stories from our archive. www. nature. com/hubble 24-28 april About 13,000 scientists are expected at Experimental Biology 2010 in Anaheim, California.
Pennsylvania. www. autism-insar. org 22 may This year's International Day for Biological Diversity (as proclaimed by the United nations) has been allotted the theme of poverty
The finer details of areas to be preserved (see'Protection plan')will be chosen by biologists and logging companies.
A recent study led by Sebastiaan Luyssaert, a biologist at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, found that mature boreal forests remain active carbon sinks rather than becoming carbon-neutral ecosystems as they mature (S. Luyssaert et al.
Evolutionary biologist Vittorio Baglione at the University of Valladolid in Palencia Spain, and colleagues now reveal an unexpected role for the laziest members of the group.
Biological Sciences1. The research team used camouflaged video cameras to collect data on how often 61 wild crows from 17 social groups in northern Spain fed chicks.
But now Yuji Kageyama at the Okazaki Institute for Integrative Biology in Japan and his colleagues have found one such'non-coding'RNA that does in fact code for several short chains of amino acids,
a developmental biologist at New york University who was involved not in the study. We missed microrna for decades maybe we missed'micropeptides'for even longer.
And although some short peptides carry out important biological functions, such as signaling between brain cells, these peptides are chipped usually fragments off larger proteins.
says Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale university in New haven, Connecticut, but sorting through the many'hits'to determine which are functional is likely to be much more difficult.
vez, a fisheries biologist at the Autonomous University of Campeche in Mexico. Another colleague will be analysing the samples collected to see
a conservation biologist at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, and one of the authors of the analysis, to be published in the journal Conservation Letters1,
says Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen. Most plantations of nonnative trees have very low biological value.
They are only good to store carbon, he says. This distinction between native and nonnative trees is important for an accurate picture of the state of the world's forests,
Zhang and his colleagues are trying to crank that up by manipulating the chemistry and biology of the rhizosphere, the narrow layer of soil surrounding roots.
says Raghuram, a molecular biologist at Indraprastha University in Delhi. The academies have a total lack of social sensitivity, objectivity and public honesty,
when the countries that are signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity meet in Nagoya, Japan, in October.
What will determine the importance ecologically is how strongly these effects translate from one level of biological organization to another,
says Sarah Fordyce, a molecular biologist at the University of Copenhagen, who presented the RNA transcriptomes (the whole set of RNA molecules present) of 700-850-year-old maize (corn) seeds at a conference there last week.
Increasingly, biologists are discovering that the differences between organisms are due not to mutations that change the sequence of protein-coding genes
Biologists working with fresh RNA struggle to prevent it breaking down, and extracting it from samples that are hundreds
Nature Newshuman societies progress in small steps just as biological evolution does, according to a study of the structure and language of societies in South East asia and the Pacific ocean.
a structural biologist specializing in mineralized tissues who is director of the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
says Arthur Weis, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Toronto, Ontario. Martin Lechowicz, a plant ecologist at Mcgill University in Montreal
says Sydney Cameron, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. For example, the Bombus franklini worker bee was widespread in northern California and southern Oregon in 1998,
says James Strange, an entomologist at the USDA-ARS Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, a conference organizer.
which at a stroke outlawed much useful molecular biological research and introduced lengthy bureaucratic approval procedures for each experiment that involved genetic manipulation.
2010), was set to be succeeded by Canadian biologist Alan Bernstein until it emerged last week that US citizenship was a requirement for the job.
Instead, the company is focusing on other chemicals thought to activate the same biological pathway as resveratrol.
Debra Brock, a molecular biologist at Rice university in Houston, Texas, who led the study, attributes this gap in our knowledge to the fact that very few labs work on wild Dictyostelium.
Michael Purugganan, a biologist at New york University, sees the husbandry practice of Dictyostelium as having intriguing parallels with human farming societies
Arrivals include Nobel laureate Timothy Hunt (pictured), a biologist at the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK.
Polar Biol. doi: 10.1007/s00300-010-0952-3; 2011). ) The calculated total over the period, some 950,000 tonnes, is still small.
a biologist who studies this subject at California State university, Fullerton. Many fish may provide a hugely important link between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems,
First author Camille Parmesan, a population biologist at the University of Texas in Austin, explains why.
You can, of course, attribute various individual biological changes to climate events, and even climate change, provided you have long-term studies.
Some people want to deconstruct any observed biological change into separate causes and put percentage figures on them.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) supports an evermore-detailed approach to biological attribution not least to inform conservation efforts.
But biology and ecology are fundamentally different from and I argue more complex than climate science humans are doing much more harm to wild species than just adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
but environmental campaigners such as the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, bemoaned the fact that politicians had lifted protection rather than waiting for due process under the Endangered Species Act.
and its effects on biological diversity. The 18 may statement came during a severe drought in provinces along the middle
devoted to understanding the biological pathology behind psychiatric disorders is held in Prague. go. nature. com/uxjkz1 Â
or so researchers in attendance last week at the Honey Bee Genomics & Biology meeting, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New york. It was dedicated the first conference on the topic
an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. Stem-cell pioneer Shinya Yamanaka at the University of Kyoto in Japan was among 18 new foreign associate members.
Neil Ferguson, a mathematical biologist at Imperial College London, says that there has been some debate in the foot
a biologist at the University of Paris-Sud and a contributor to the new study along with Mousseau and M ¸ller.
Biologist Kevin Mcgraw of Arizona State university in Tempe says that pigments are good ecological tools:
Nevertheless, he and other biologists have argued for years that scoring bird pigments by eye is not as persuasive as a chemical analysis,
Beachy, a prominent plant biologist who retains a position at Washington University in St louis, has worked doggedly to raise the political profile of agricultural research
the Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel identified 11 biological agents that it said needed more rigorous monitoring,
Funding Plant grants Fifteen plant-biology researchers have won a total of US$75 million from two private US foundations for their work.
Coming up 25 墉 oe30 June The complexity of RNA biology features in the Federation of European Biochemical Societies congress in Turin. go. nature. com/kvlglw 25 june
But he suspects that the strain might have biological characteristics that make adults more susceptible to the infection.
-or under-regulating GM plants, says Roger Beachy, a plant biologist at Washington University in St louis, Missouri,
The findings, due to be published later this year in the journal Biological Conservation, were collected from a survey of 551 Ghanaian bat hunters, vendors and consumers.
After a stint chairing the public-affairs committee for the American Society of Plant Biologists in Rockville
and industry scientists along with representatives from funding agencies and growers'associations to draw up a ten-year plan for plant biology.
Stacey and organizers at the American Society of Plant Biologists hope to issue a report by early 2012,
because even molecular biologists are flocking to learn more about how the genes and processes they study function in natural environments.
Claus Nielsen, a retired evolutionary biologist at the Natural history Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, doesn't think Eoandromeda represents comb jellies either.
PEOPLEMARGULIS dies Biologist Lynn Margulis (pictured), a creative and unconventional scientist best known for her work on the theory of endosymbiosis
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