Synopsis: 4. biotech: Biology:


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Biology offers one explanation for the differences, says Lorenzen. Musk oxen cope poorly with high summer temperatures, for example,

But he says that a closer look at the biology and ecology of individual species should offer clues as to which are under greatest threat.


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which Kraus says may be a biological oddity. However, he also points out that miniature frogs are hard to find in the field,

its products include biological drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and anaemia. SOURCE: GTM RES.//SEIAUS solar-energy installations spiked during the third quarter of 2011,


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Yasuo Yoshikuni and his colleagues at the Bio Architecture Lab in Berkeley, California, engineered the bacterium Escherichia coli

says Yong-Su Jin of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign,


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Her research requires the highest level of biological security containment BSL-4 but no BSL-4 labs in the United states can accommodate horses,

The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas, is designed to provide BSL-4 containment for large-animal studies


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BUSINESS Biosimilars rules Drug-makers keen to sell generic forms of branded biological drugs such as enzymes and antibodies were excited to finally see draft guidance on the matter emerge from the US Food and Drug

) The FDA wants firms to prove their molecules'similarity to branded biologics before the generics can be approved


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says Dario Maestripieri, a behavioural biologist at the University of Chicago, Illinois. But, he adds,


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global biology team leader at Dow.""The odds that you re going to have weed a that s resistant to both are very low.

On 17 may, the US Environmental protection agency approved a bioherbicide from Marrone Bio Innovations in Davis, California.


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INEOS Bio in Lisle, Illinois; Kior in Pasadena, Texas; KL Energy Corp in Rapid city, South dakota;


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while the other addresses the plight of under-represented minorities in biomedical science. See page 304 for more.


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The largely critical review suggests that the proposed National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), scheduled to open in 2020,

when the town of Manhattan, Kansas, won a bid to host the BSL-4 facility the most stringent designation for biological containment.

To Tom Manney, an emeritus professor of biology and physics at Kansas State university, which is located adjacent to the NBAF site,


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five of the world s largest societies for studying evolution and ecology team up for their first joint congress on evolutionary biology. go. nature. com/hwsqna11-15 july Europe s largest


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says Joshua Linder, a biological anthropologist at the James madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He and others are keenly watching how the RSPO handles a flood of complaints filed this spring against a planned 70,000-hectare oil-palm plantation in Cameroon, for example, in


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Global Change Biology http://doi. org/h7g; 2012).")" We don t know how the government is going to use this information at this point,


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Olympic biology The UK government plans to transform the London Olympics drug-testing laboratory in Harlow into a national bioanalytics centre,

The MRC-NIHR Phenome Centre will use equipment purchased for anti-doping tests to probe biological samples for biochemicals such as proteins and metabolites,


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so could provide insight into the pathology and basic biology of viruses, Baron says. Of more immediate interest, investigators would also like to know


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The  3. 2-million (US$4. 1-million) study was led by Gilles-Eric Sà ralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen, France, in collaboration with the Paris-based Committee


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So Allison Kermode, a plant biologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby Canada, whose husband works with people who have lysosomal storage disorders,

a cell biologist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant science in Ithaca, New york, calls the approach"very elegant.

says Herta Steinkellner, a molecular biologist at the University of Natural resources and Life sciences in Vienna.


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P. J. RUDALLTHE fruits reflect more polarized light than any other known biological substance. Ref. 1a transmission electron micrograph of the fruit's cell walls shows the layered fine structure that gives rise to the brilliant colours.


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global pandemics and/or deliberate biological attacks? To further improve preparedness, we must continue to invest in the best public health monitoring systems that can be built.


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says William Laurance, a conservation biologist at James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.""Much of this forest disruption is illegal,


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says study co-author Walter Jetz, an evolutionary biologist at Yale university in New haven, Connecticut. But the endeavour is also controversial, owing to the large number of species for

an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois."But there are almost certainly introduced artefacts by lacking one-third of the sequences used to create it.

says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading, UK. But when the researchers repeated the analysis using only species for


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The pledge was made at the United nations Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, India, which ended on 20 october.


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The Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC) supports work on GE food animals, including chickens engineered to be resistant to the bird-flu virus. A BBSRC spokesperson told Nature:"


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says Stefan Wagner, a molecular biologist at Agresearch. That's why it has taken so long to succeed in making an allergen-free cow,

and leaves no mark in the genome, says Bruce Whitelaw, a molecular biologist at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh in the United kingdom,


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David Hughes, an assistant professor of entomology and biology at The Pennsylvania State university, says. Every few months scientists are discovering yet another peculiar trait that,

Hughes and Simon Elliot (of the Department of Animal Biology at the Federal University of Vicosa in Brazil) described four new species of the Ophiocordyceps fungus that were found in just a small section of rainforest in Brazil

Research published in Biology Letters in 2010 describes a 48-million-year-old fossilized leaf from Germany that bears the distinctive scars of a bite from an ant's mandible on its main vein.


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Even if biologists can halt the spread of C. fraxinea in the United kingdom, the worldwide spread of plant pathogens shows little sign of abating in a globalized economy."


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director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, has built a map of elephant DNA obtained from faeces samples from across Africa.

Most biologists consider African elephants to include at least two species the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis.


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Donald Boesch A biological oceanographer, Boesch is currently president of the Center for Environmental science at the University of Maryland in Cambridge,


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This idea makes such intuitive sense that biologists are stunned now by genome-sequencing data suggesting that the sponges were preceded by complex marine predators called comb jellies.

a developmental biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and a leading member of the team sequencing the genome of the comb jelly Pleurobrachia bachei.

in results they presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology,

Andy Baxevanis, a comparative biologist at the US National Human genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland,

Alternatively, says Sally Leys, a biologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, sponges may have complexity that scientists have yet to appreciate."


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Daniel Robert, a biologist at the University of Bristol, UK, knew that such electrical interactions would temporarily change the electrical status of the flowers

says Thomas Seeley, a behavioural biologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york. Assuming we can replicate the findings,


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an evolutionary biologist at Oldenburg University in Germany who was not part of the study. The analysis,

says Mark Springer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Riverside. For example, grouping animals according to their anatomy alone puts physically similar species such as pangolins, anteaters and aardvarks in the same tight group,


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and others, ranging from synthetic biologist George Church of Harvard Medical school to environmental gadfly Steward Brand of the Long Now Foundation

At this moment, brave conservationists are risking their lives to protect forest elephants from armed poachers, noted biologist David Ehrenfeld of Rutgers University at TEDX.


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says Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle and one of the driving forces behind the push for forensic examinations of elephant ivory.


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a biologist at St andrews and co-author of the whale study, "so here we have a population with two independently evolving cultural traditions a culture.


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Nobel laureate dies Fran §ois Jacob, a Nobel-prizewinning French biologist, died on 19 april aged 92.


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said Jerry Melillo, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,


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But whatever the biological basis, they say, antiretrovirals will be vital for protecting infants during this time.


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Since last week, Cooley, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, has been on the road mapping populations of periodical cicadas (Magicicada.

Biologists generally agree that the giant synchronized emergence of periodical cicadas overwhelms potential predators, allowing some of the relatively defenceless insects to reproduce.

Researchers are making more progress in probing the biological mechanisms that allow cicadas to switch their life cycles.

a co-author and evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, plans to follow up those results with several genetic studies, including sequencing the RNA transcripts of genes that are active at different stages in the cicada life cycle.


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a plant geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T Â bingen, Germany, who co-led a study published today in the journal elife1."


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and Vega, head of the Institute for Sustainable Local Development and Andean Amazon Cultural and Biological Conservation (INBIAPERU) in Trujillo, Peru, had stumbled on a species unknown to science.


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from biologist Dave Goulson of the University of Sussex, UK, reviews the environmental risk posed by neonicotinoid insecticides2.


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How the chicken lost its penisthe case of the missing bird penis is a longstanding mystery in evolutionary biology.

a developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, looked for differences between developing duck and chicken embryos.

Bob Montgomerie, an evolutionary biologist at Queen's university in Ontario, Canada, disagrees. He and others have suggested that


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and light have altered the city birds biological clocks1. The finding helps to explain prior reports that urban songbirds adopt more nocturnal lifestyles2-4 data that prompted Davide Dominoni, an ecologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany,

says Niels Rattenborg, an avian sleep biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen,


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Masayo Takahashi, a stem-cell biologist at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, plans to use sheets of retinal cells derived from ips cells to repair retinal epithelium in patients


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whether the honeycomb is an example of exquisite biological engineering or blind physics. A regular geometric array of identical cells with simple polygonal cross sections can take only one of three forms:


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Negligence claim On 11 july, relatives of two biologists murdered in 2010 at the University of Alabama,

along with then-provost Vistasp Karbhari, sought police protection for themselves from biologist Amy Bishop, without warning or protecting others.


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but it s a very small possibility, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant biologist at the University of California, Riverside.


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helping to generate a thriving bio  fuels industry based mainly on biodiesel. Europe is even importing rapeseed and vegetable oil to meet demand.


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says Susan Johnston, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who led the research.


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Dennis Gray, a developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Apopka is trying to use genes from grape varieties to engineer a wine grape that is resistant to Pierce s disease a condition caused by a bacterium that has made it difficult to grow wine grapes in the state.

Sally  Mackenzie, a plant biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, contacted APHIS about the high-yield offspring of a transgenic sorghum grass plant


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a conservation biologist at the University of Notre dame in Indiana who leads a working group on assisted migration."


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Chris Kuzawa, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says that the study makes an important contribution


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says Daniel Karp, a conservation biologist at Stanford university in California, who led the study.""Incorporating their conservation into your management of pests is absolutely something you should do.


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"The whole culture in wildlife biology and conservation circles has been that you can t approximate Mother Nature,


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Chris Thomas, a biologist at the University of York, UK, notes that the overall rate of movement is quite similar to that found in a meta-analysis he led on the movement of wild species1."


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The paper, from a research group led by Gilles-Eric SÃ ralini, a molecular biologist at the University of Caen, France,

and allege that the retraction derives from the journal's editorial appointment of biologist Richard Goodman,


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said Li Bo, director of the Office for Management of Alien Species in the Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, at the second International Congress on Biological Invasions in Qingdao last month.

and implementing biological control with natural enemies means that"there haven t been major outbreaks since 2009,

Biological invasions are"two-way traffic, she says. Most of the forest pest species in North america originally came from China

"With climate warming, increasing international trade and rapid urbanization, the problem of biological invasions will only get worse,


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Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, Seattle, says that poaching levels were probably higher in 2012,

Closer to the front line, George Wittemyer of Colorado State university in Fort Collins, a conservation biologist who conducts research at the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya,


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when you re a plant biologist you re not going to turn down Rothamsted. The first thing to say is that as a scientist,


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) Biology preprints Life scientists have a new website for sharing research papers before journal publication. The site, called biorã¡

and will include sections devoted to different subdisciplines of biology. See page 180 for more.


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"Phylogenetically, it s really the equivalent of the duck-billed platypus and monotremes, says Claude depamphilis, a plant evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State university in University Park, who co-led researchers on the Amborella Genome Project.


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)" The strength of a carbon sink depends not only on current biological activity but also on former crop management practices such as fertilizer use, says Vuichard.


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and plant biologist Rusty Rodriguez.""Up till now we have focused on plants as individuals, as we have with animals.

In the same way that biologists are now starting to understand the power and influence of the trillions of microbes living in and on the human body,


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says Louisa Willcox, the Northern Rockies representative at the Center for Biological Diversity in Livingston, Montana.

For Christopher Servheen, a biologist who oversees grizzly-bear recovery efforts at the Fish and Wildlife Service in Missoula, Montana, that is not surprising."

But those criticisms are rejected by Frank van Manen, a wildlife biologist with the US Geological Survey in Bozeman, Montana, who led the diet study.

since 2002 that gives biologists more confidence in their population surveys. Servheen says that if the government were to decide to pursue de  listing,


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and another company, INEOS Bio, started up a facility near Vero Beach in Florida. This year

who studies biological-systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the new solvent deserves to be developed further."


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according to a new study published in Biology Letters1. The research shows that sometimes a decision like this,

says mathematical biologist Peter Trimmer of the University of Bristol, UK, a co-author of the latest study."


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regulate gene expression is the focus of a Keystone Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology in Taos, New mexico.


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Now, reproductive biologist Yukari Takeuchi from the University of Tokyo and her colleagues have identified a single molecule, known as 4-ethyloctanal,


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ultraviolet and X-ray photons for experiments including semiconductor research and biological imaging since 1986. The NSF cut support in 2011 because of budget constraints (see Nature 471,278;


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says lead author Michael Worobey, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

and swine for at least 2 to 15 years before the pandemic and combined to make the lethal virus. Gavin Smith, an evolutionary biologist at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school at the National University of Singapore,

says Oliver Pybus, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford, UK.""It shows the evidence for a pig origin is a lot weaker,

says Richard Lenski, an evolutionary biologist at Michigan State university in East Lansing.""We now have this idea that the source for a lot of influenza virus we see now worldwide is potentially equine,


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when a wolf that biologists called the old grey guy came to the island. He sired 34 Â pups

Biol. Conserv. 142,1025-1031; 2009). ) For Vucetich, genetic rescue is required not so much to maintain the continuity of the study as to preserve the ecosystem.

a US Geological Survey wolf biologist based in St paul, Minnesota, argues in favour of"watchful waiting.

and that the knowledge would be useful for conservation biologists, who often need to nurture small,


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In a study published today in Biology Letters1, two zoologists, Michael Dillon, now at the University of Wyoming in Laramie,


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A 12 march report by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology says that since 2000


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A cocktail of enzymes must then be applied to chop up the tough biological polymers inside all before the yeast is added to the resulting sugars.

These thermochemical methods can produce either a crude bio-oil or a stream of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as syngas.

and INEOS Bio near Vero Beach, Florida (see Power plants).(Both plants are currently idle, pending upgrades.

But Standlee says that biology can still compete, by tackling ever-cheaper feedstocks. His company is betting that a new generation of enzymes can turn municipal waste into ethanol,


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As a wildlife biologist working to ensure wolves remain on the landscape I find it disheartening

If you knew anything at all about wolf biology or trapping the fact that they caught this wolf in the same campground within 3 days of the attack would provide ample evidence to proceed

and go out in the field with a biologist. Talk to them about what they do

I too have background in wildlife biology yet find it extremely hard not to scream at my computer

if wolf biologists and wildlife officials construct a documentary aired on PBS Animal Planet Discovery


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International atomic energy agency nuclear radiated biological mutant seed enhancement amplified evolutionary adapation production against wheat rust desease for Kenyan farmers.

To the point that mutation based on radiation is accepted as a biological dating system. The plant is not radioactive it s only accelerated evolution with human selection.


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Dung beetles Use the Milky way for Orientation Marie Dacke Emily Baird Marcus Byrne Clarke H. Scholtz Eric J. Warrant Current Biology epub January 24 2013.


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In addition the weird biology of bacteria means that they are able to easily share genes with one another further spreading antibiotic resistance.


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and that chemistry is one mean bitch who proved biology that without knowledge and common sense you'll quickly find yourself out of the gene pool:


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Biologists say that the benefits of sex come from the genetic rearrangements that occur during meiosis the special cell division that produces eggs and sperm.

Harvard university biology professor Matthew Meselson and his lab have spent the past several years investigating bdelloids'molecular genetics.

Asexual reproduction that some plants participate in is precisely biological cloning. Well I can't agree with aerosphere


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if the features are purely biological like coral heads or actual wrecks. Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape.

Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it; 3-D models would enable them to detect how ocean acidification


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Megaconus confirms that many modern mammalian biological functions related to skin and integument had evolved already before the rise of modern mammals says Zhe-Xi Luo one of the fossil's discoverers and a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

id=latest-theory-human-body-hairã¢Â#Âoemegaconus confirms that many modern mammalian biological functions related to skin


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For this reason GMOS that have the Bt gene are compatible with biological control programs

and Morphology and the Institute of Biological sciences at University of Brasilia and it was published in the Journal of Hematology

ÃÃÚÂ Ã 2. A comparative analysis published in the International Journal of Biological sciences examined the health effects of three different varieties of Monsanto-developed GMO corn on mice.

Institute of Biology in France looking at the effects of genetically modified corn. The research showed that in both male


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As somewhat of an outsider coming in to biology my impression was'Okay I'm gonna put the cells in the right place incubate it for a while

As a result not everyone believes scaffolds are necessary including Gabor Forgacs Organovo's cofounder and a biological physicist at the University of Missouri.

You will never build an extended biological structure a big organ or tissue by putting down individual cells Forgacs says.

and complexity of the vascular system graduating from biological parts and pieces to whole printed organs will become only a matter of time.

In April Olguin's team released Project Cyborg a Web-based platform geared toward nanoscale molecular modeling and simulations for cellular biology.

Organovo's first biological product will be liver tissue for drug testing. Every year the pharmaceutical industry spends more than $39 billion on R&d.

Bioprinters are already demonstrating scientists'remarkable mastery of biology and engineering. Back at Organovo inside an otherwise unremarkable neon-lit clean room Dallas arranges human cells into intricate patterns that mirror those of nature.


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Dr. Post a cardiovascular biologist from Maastricht University brought his raw burger out in a petri dish under a cloche.

Bio meat seems like a good enough name. And it's probably what it will end up being called anyway.


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not biology...not geology...not environmental engineering or conservation or meteorology or heck anything scientific at all...

It is a very competent agency with many educated biologists who have done extensive research on the wolf population...


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A real outbreak of polio or smallpox or something that will actually kill your face would probably have all of these sitting at home self proclaimed biology experts who without any real education speculate that hey I think personally that vaccines probably messes with our immune system


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Uno's team including biologists and geologists from the U s. Kenya and the U k. use mass spectrometry to determine the amount of carbon-14 a rare radioactive isotope of carbon appears in an animal tissue.


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Genetic biologists have been trying to combine the strengths of each for some time now and researchers have managed just to compare the DNA

Theoretically the comparison could allow genetic biologists to pick out exactly which genes they want to splice to have desired the effect on the tomato.


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Now a team of biologists has determined that sold produce still responds to cycles of light

The biologists from Rice university in Texas and the University of California at Davis performed a series of experiments on Arabidopsis thaliana plants exposed to 12-hour cycles of light and dark.

The biologists then tried the same experiment but instead of using whole plants they used circular discs cut out from cabbage leaves.

The hungry hungry caterpillar-repelling effect worked for about a week after the cabbage was harvested the biologists discovered.

Shoppers usually buy cabbage 24 to 72 hours after it's harvested the biologists found after talking with grocers.

The effect also works with other foods the biologists tested including lettuce spinach zucchini sweet potatoes carrots and blueberries.

but they must make another natural insect repellant the biologists wrote. One preliminary study has suggested glucosinolates may be part of the reason why people who eat lots of cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage

If grocers maintained day-night cycles for their wares they might maintain more healthful chemicals for shoppers to consume the biologists wrote.

The Texan-Californian team published their work today in the journal Current Biology y


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#A Plan For The World's Tallest Wood Skyscraperlook at this futuristic skyscraper design! Construction for it would dump less CO2 into the atmosphere than traditional steel construction!


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It has all the colors of an oil puddle in the sun. Yet the real weirdos are our familiar yellow-and-black honeybees says U s. Geological Survey biologist Sam Droege.


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Dr. Mayumi Ito a stem cell biologist and dermatologist at NYU's Langone Medical center recently published a paper in


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The study appears in the journal Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. Wait you're telling me that burning large amounts of wood and other biofuels puts carbon into the atmosphere?


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Food just seems to pop up like this obnoxious biological need that I need to get rid of he says.


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Their findings will be published in this week's journal Current Biology...In some birds they grow a little too fully:


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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology took dried plants some from as far back as 170 years ago


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It's unlikely that this clone could develop into a human say the scientists a team of biologists from the U s. and Thailand.

Mitalipov is a biologist who studies cells and development at the Oregon Health and Science University.

So is a biological system with the future potential to develop into a person itself an actual person or not?

Study of embryonic stem cells will further our understanding of developmental biology which will lead to a better understanding of embryogenesis potentially leading to currently unavailable treatments for debilitating congenital disorders


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