Biologist George C Williams called this phenomenon misplaced reproductive function Â. One other common form of adoption occurred
In one breeding season, biologists from Spain's Universidad de Cordoba found nest switching in 40%of broods across three distinct white-stork breeding colonies.
Biologist Kevin Brown of York University thinks that the costs of better chick discrimination could be even higher.
Importantly, since biology is everywhere, these approaches are confined not to Western societies. Increasingly DIY bio communities are learning how to hack natural systems
and diversify living technology applications. This may streamline global human development with such natural processes so that our lifestyles are more sustainable,
 Where uniqueness lies Gary Marcus Nautilus 29 april 2013 Advances in genetics, biology, neuroscience, anthropology, tend to point up how similar humans are to other animals, not how different.
However in 2009, the Food and Drug Administration defined helminths as biological products that could not be sold before having undergone a series of clinical trials
bona fide treatments based on the biology of the worms that can be scaled up and manufactured without the complexities
So far, so good oe we have a biological explanation for why cranberry juice might prevent infections,
The function and purpose of dung-showering is still only partially understood, according to biologist Richard Despard Estes.
Stanford biologist Douglas J Mccauley and colleagues carefully described the mating habits of this toothy species in 2010.
This requires intimate knowledge of the bed bug's basic biology. But, because bed bugs were at such low levels for decades,
Biological tactics are emerging as another possible option. Insect growth regulators, or IGRS, are chemicals that prevent bed bugs from completing their lifecycle,
Herbert and his group have enlisted biologists all over the world to incorporate barcoding into their fieldwork to keep the database growing.
 Then, in 2008, they got talking to a biologist colleague at the University of Central Florida where they worked.
It is a technique that is widely used in biology. For example it is used by food inspectors to check
whilst field biologists use it to identify organisms. In all cases the technique is largely the same.
"Up until the last couple of years, you needed quite a lot of biological material  and often the results were said inconclusive,
because the keratin oe a kind of biological plastic that encases the hair shaft-Â protects the DNA that it contains from the contamination
Darren Curnoe of the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental sciences at the University of New south wales in Australia, the chances of finding a completely new species of hominid are remote.
and other biologists fear may be the sixth mass extinction in the Earth's 4. 5 billion-year history,
we are inevitably losing different species. Saving biodiversity would cost $300 billion a year, according to the chief of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
 Armed with new reproductive biology and genome engineering technologies, he and other scientists are dreaming up ambitious plans to resurrect long-dead animals from pigeons to Tasmanian tigers and wooly mammoths.
 says William Holt, a reproductive biologist at the Zoological Society of London, who in a 2004 review paper called the prospect of cloning highly endangered species"hopelessly optimistic Â. Reverse switch But another scientific breakthrough,
though most of these changes are not likely to have a biological effect. An elephant ips cell engineered to contain those mutations would theoretically be capable of producing woolly mammoth sperm.
or indeed any extinct species would require a dizzying list of technological leaps in genome engineering, reproductive biology,
 Ewen Callaway writes about biology and medicine for Nature Newsif you would like to comment on this story
At the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute in Nairobi I met soil scientist Peter Okoth,
ecology and biology have been transformed by humans. Human scientists say Earth has entered the Anthropocene epoch oe the Age of man oe
and injecting parts of one half into the other just to see what would happen. http://ts-si. org/biology/3305-brain-before-body-the-spemann-mangold-experiments 12.
The researchers note that plant biologists led the way in discovering receptors that sense and respond to infection.
Dozens of popular courses in psychology, statistics, biology and other fields are offered also primarily online.
which Dr. Joos defined as oea determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as females and males.
The research was led by Professor Ryszard Maleszka of The Australian National Universitys College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, working with colleagues from the German Cancer Institute in Heidelberg,
open access journal PLOS Biology. Their work reveals for the first time the intricacies of the environmentally-influenced chemical marking of DNA called DNA methylation
the Willaman Professor of Biology and director of life sciences at Penn State university. oegraham and colleagues show beautifully the tradeoffs in the immune system as a balance that maximizes reproductive output.
an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton who also is on the faculty of the University of Edinburgh,
The technique used to study immunology in the wild was vital to the importance of the study, according to Lynn Martin, an assistant professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of South Florida. oefor so long,
according to Andrew Read, a professor of biology and entomology, also at Penn State, because it shows that immunity can both increase
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Dr. Bromenshenks team at the University of Montana and Montana State university in Bozeman, working with the Armys Edgewood Chemical Biological Center northeast of Baltimore, said in their jointly written paper that the virus-fungus
called N. ceranae. oeour mission is to have detection capability to protect the people in the field from anything biological,
and identify biological agents in circumstances where commanders might have no idea what sort of threat they face.
In coming to that conclusion, the scientists analyzed 31 chemical and biological soil properties soil DNA,
But a new report in the August 10th issue of Current Biology, shows that plant-dwelling pea aphids have designed a strategy to help them avoid that dismal fate:
learning subjects like French, mathematics, biology and physics. Jean-Marc Guillou, 64, the white man who came to Bamako to recruit young football talents,
was snapped by wildlife biologist Jonathan Mays in Maine, U s. He was photographing the striking caterpillars
Honeybee behaviour and biology has been affected by electrosmog since these insects have magnetite in their bodies
and resolved in particular concerning biological contamination and weed resistance development. Agriculture Law reports that the district court agreed with the plaintiffs that the environmental assessment undertaken by the USDA was inadequate
mostly in swamps and mountains, says wildlife biologist Scott Vance of the National Wild Turkey Federation.
head of the Biological Technology Laboratory at Inner Mongolia University. oewe did not announce the birth of the cows until now
added Yale biologist Jeremy Beaulieu. oebut we actually find that they might be Triassic in origin,
The consortium released the 464 megabyte draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLOS Biology. oebecause this is a different kind of insect not a fruit fly, not a beetle,
Dr. David Stern, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton university said that even though he pushed hard to get the aphid genome sequenced,
and that the second set can allow modifications by mutations. oemost of the mutations are probably neutral or negative for the genes, with no effect on the biology of the organism.
a professor of biology at Duke who led the study. Triops, a 2-inch crustacean that looks like a cross between a horseshoe crab
said John Vogel, a lead author and molecular biologist with the Agricultural research service (ARS), USDAS chief intramural scientific research agency.
printed in biology textbooks for decades, explained theoretically in Science in 1997 and described in a 2000 essay in Nature as oeextended to all life forms from bacteria to whales is just plain wrong. oeactually,
Figs and the wasps that pollinate them present one of biologists favorite examples of a beneficial relationship between two different species. In exchange for the pollination service provided by the wasp,
DOE Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research. oethis opens the door to crop improvements that are needed sorely for energy production, sustainable human and animal food production,
Anna Kuparinen, Docent at the University of Helsinkis Faculty of Biological and Environmental sciences, simulated forest growth from southern to northern Finland.
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and biology as part of an effort to improve several aspects of its cultivation. In 2010
New zealand biologists believe that honeybees can sense the faint floral odor on the breath of people infected with tuberculosis,
turning the plants into biological factories#that can produce proteins that are identical to those found in humans.
and consumer demand will be driven by biological relevancy. We will be transitioning from a distinct set of crop options in the past to an unlimited number of food options in the future.
In Washington, a biology professor who is studying whether pollen richer in protein makes bees healthier plans to compare urban bees protein intake with that of bees in the country.
from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in WASHINGTON DC, told The Sunday telegraph. The plants and vegetables were crushed probably with a mortar
your blood glucose levels, your blood insulin levels and the other biological responses in your body,#he said.
Budding engineers or biologists will enjoy the Science Center of Iowa and nothing beats the clear night skies of the Iowa plains for stargazing.
Dr Arjamandi, who presented the research at the Experimental Biology conference in WASHINGTON DC, on Tuesday,
However, a tiny parasitic wasp from Asia known as a Trissolcus wasp#a bug smaller than a gnat#is showing promise as a possible biological control.
and biologists have found that when the skin is submerged for a long time the epidermis begins absorbing water.
plenty of real threats face many of the hundreds of bird species in Turkey#According to a biology professor at Hacettepe University in the capital city of Ankara,
Dr. Harry G. Preuss, a professor of physiology and biology at the Georgetown University Medical center
But if we realize that all of plant biology arises from the evolutionary constriction of the rootedness#that keep plants immobile,
then we can start to appreciate the very sophisticated biology going on in leaves and flowers.
I think the term plant neurobiology is as ridiculous as say, human floral biology. Plants do not have neuron
associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health, write that the new research provides convincing evidence#of the link between imidacloprid and the phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), in
said University of Illinois entomology professor and Institute for Genomic Biology director Gene Robinson, who led the study.
thanks to an intrepid team of biologists led by University of Delhi professor Sathyabhama Das Biju.
This is a major hotspot of biological diversity, but one of the least explored, #Biju said in an interview with The Associated press. We hope this new family will show the importance of funding research in the area.
She s studying ways to use biological nanowires to transfer the extra energy from the light-harvesting cell into another cell that s genetically engineered to produce fuel or food.
Components in future systems need not even be biological, so long as they interface with the wires developed in this project,
paving the way for hybrid biological/inorganic photosynthetic systems, #Jones explained in an abstract for her presentation.
and Biological sciences Research Council, is aimed at developing an artificial leaf that produces a dense, portable fuel you could put in your car.
or depressed would be a welcome addition to most clothing lines. 2.)Organ-View Clothing As part of our ongoing effort to monitor our own biological functions,
a biology professor at San francisco State university, had collected some belly-up bees from the ground underneath lights around the University s biology building.
we will have the means to program our biology away from disease and aging, by the early 2020#s. Health and medicine have been a hit or miss up until recently.
We also have new tools that allow us to actually reprogram our biology in the same way that we reprogram our computers.
#Companies rush to build bio-factories for a wide range of products Vials of genetically engineered life-forms.
The rush to biological means of production promises to revolutionize the chemical industry and transform the economy,
Proponents characterize bio-factories as examples of#oegreen technology#that are sustainable and immune to fickle weather and disease.
They compare the spread of bio-factories to the large-scale burning of coal at the turn of the 20th century#a development with implications for carbon dioxide emissions
Amyris has become a legend in the field that sits at the intersection of biology and engineering,
Could they tinker with some genes in the yeast to create a biological machine capable of producing medicine?
A 1973 NASA document summarizing the biological effects of vacuums on mammals gives you 10 seconds of consciousness
and intrigued many biologists.##oeit s just a very neat new physiologic mechanism,#says Ken Witwer, a molecular biologist at Johns hopkins university in Baltimore.#
#oehow is it that a small RNA, or any RNA, could survive this trip from the mouth, with all these enzymes in saliva, down into the stomach, with the acidic environment there,
#The July issue of RNA Biology adds two more skeptical papers to the Mix in one of them,
#oethis is a an important topic to get pinned down#the potential for new biological phenomena is significant.#
a molecular biologist, argues in his book,#oebrain Rules, #that if we were to design an almost perfect anti-brain environment,
according to climate scientist Andy Jarvis, lead author of a 2012 paper in the journaltropical Plant Biology.
says Bodnar, a biotechnologist with Biology Fortified, a nonprofit GM-organism advocacy organization in Middleton, Wisconsin.
The study, led by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan,
and higher weight makes much sense from a biological perspective, #he says. Some of the earliest studies evaluating diets low in saturated fat
#oethis could significantly accelerate the rate of discovery in all areas of biology, including gene therapy in medicine, the generation of improved agricultural goods,
For a decade some biologists have been touting a new approach, dubbed synthetic biology, that makes more genetic alterations
I m just a dumb biologist so#Diagram showing how directional virtual fencing operates. The black-and-white dashed line (8) shows where a conventional fence would be placed.
The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs.
Synthetic biology is about programming biology using standardized parts as one programs computers using standardized libraries today.
build and remediate engineered biological systems that process information, manipulate chemicals, fabricate materials and structures,
Bio-Waste Optimizers 31. Guardians of Privacy Future Sports Sports have become the ultimate form of storytelling.
Bio-Factories Based on using living systems bio-factories represent a new process for creating substances that are either too tricky
or too expensive to grow in nature or to make with petrochemicals. The rush to develop bio-factories as a means for production
not only promises to revolutionize the chemical industry but also transform the economy. Hundreds of products are already in the pipeline. 110.
Bio-Factory Doctors Strategists, and Developers 112. DNA Scientists 113. Gene Sequencers 114. Treatment Monitors Micro-Colleges The systems used to create colleges centuries ago seems justifiably primitive by today s standards.
Bio-Meat Factory Engineers 131. Supply Chain Optimizers 132. Urban Agriculturalists Why ship food all the way around the world when it can be grown next door 133.
the host s own biology, their microbes, and environmental factors like food-borne illnesses that can trigger inflammation.
when the cicadas will emerge biologists believe. After cicadas emerge from the ground and mate the females lay eggs at the edges of tree branches
and big brained Harvard evolutionary biologist Jason Lieberman said during a public lecture on Nov 6 here at the American Museum of Natural history.
and currently researchers feed lab meat in part with blood from cow fetuses according to a 2012 Discover Magazine post by Christina Agapakis a synthetic biologist at UCLA. Researchers have proposed that they could one day use algae to feed cultured meat
These are just a few examples of how humans are contributing to the sixth-largest mass extinction in the history of the planet according to most biologists.
which don't provide suitable habitat for most animals) threatening the future existence of orangutans said Lee Hannah a senior fellow in climate change biology at Conservation International a global group devoted to saving endangered animals
It's a broad field using tools from biology medicine psychology sociology and other fields.
I like to call sort of a biological defense system Lydell Newby the Mall of America's senior manager of environmental services told local news station KARE 11.
Donald Pfister a Harvard university biologist who studies fungi suggests that Siberian tribesmen who ingested fly agaric may have hallucinated that the grazing reindeer were flying.
Many of these tree types run a high risk of becoming extinct even before biologists can discover them the researchers said.
and stasis lead study author Sandra Rehan an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of New Hampshiretold Livescience There was a period where there was no genetic diversification happening for millions of years a real dearth of speciation.
The findings should generate great interest in the field said John Ascher assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at the National University of Singapore
whether behaviors drive the evolutionary process which in my opinion has been sidelined in evolutionary biology. Now because we have the means to look at it directly in the fossil record we can try looking for it.
But during the five-month-long breeding season the birds'social organization completely changes said Jessica Yorzinski an evolutionary biologist at Purdue University in Lafayette Ind.
The kind of economic biases we see in different species including humans might really have a biological basis in terms of these species being prepared for different environments Rosati said.
First as a biologist I don't consider questions comparing the intelligence of different species to be useful.
Indeed it's bad biology to rob nonhumans of their cognitive and emotional capacities and we're not inserting something human into these animals that they don't already possess.
In the meantime the species remains a beacon of hope for those determined to retain all our biological heritage for our children.
We had no idea that this sense even existed Thomas Seeley a behavioral biologist at Cornell University told Scientificamerican.
The study was funded by the National institutes of health and by the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council of the United kingdom. Pass it on:
With new discoveries in astrophysics evolutionary biology molecular genetics geology and paleoanthropology a continuous story has emerged starting from the Big bang. This is both a new cosmology that humanity is embedded in and a grand tour of science.
It's a very interesting and surprising result because of the whole body protection from radiation said Gary Firestone a molecular biologist at the University of California Berkeley who studies DIM
Research by Rachel Carmody a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard university's FAS Center for Systems Biology in Cambridge Mass. and colleagues shows that food processing eating a carrot that's pureed rather than whole for example changes the calories we get from it.
or $20 said Manfred Milinski an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Germany who was involved not in the study.
The study detailed today (March 18) in the journal Current Biology found that roosters put under constant light conditions will still crow at the crack of dawn.
I think this is a much more accurate and precise method for doing that said biologist Alfred Roca of the University of Illinois who was involved not in the research.
Potential uses Samuel Wasser a conservation biologist at the University of Washington who did not participate in the study said the new study is a very important development
#Condors Drive Cougars to Kill More Cougar biologist Mark Elbroch spent more than a year in South america's Patagonia region tracking down pumas and recording
</p><p>These new findings could help unravel the biological links between growth and mortality the scientists added.</
Biologist Allan Savory explained in a talk at the TED 2013 conference in Long beach Calif. last month that he was taught to hold livestock accountable for incurring such damage on the land
what was clearly a geological climatic and biological event with worldwide consequences. Geologists call it the K-Pg extinction event
I talked with other crocodilian biologists everyone had the same experience Platt told Livescience. Everyone just rejected the notion that crocodilians eat fruit
The earliest multicellular animals evolved their own form of mesoderm independently with unique genes allowing sophisticated biological organisation.
I think of the Ctenophores as a semaphore signalling some profound truths to us (in a blue green glow) across the vastness of time about animal origins and biological organisation.
 It's not always easy being an evolutionary biologist in this day and age. But whenever I start feeling sorry for myself
It's bad biology to rob animals of the traits they clearly possess. For example we share with other mammals
Evolution has come up with a huge diversity of different ways of arranging one's demographic schedule said study researcher Owen jones a biologist at the University of Southern Denmark.
We were interested more in the biological context of this. Dry conditions kill with caveats In higher altitudes of the western United states (where trees tend to grow) temperatures jumped as much as 0. 9 degrees Fahrenheit (0. 5 degrees Celsius) per decade
what scientists suspected Richard Klein a biologist at Stanford university wrote in an accompanying commentary article published in PNAS.
Cholesterol is an important component of all human and animal cells and influences hormone biology among other functions.
and preserve biological diversity Fan Zhiyong director of the WWF species program in China said in a statement.
The conservation organization released the footage to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22) first designated by the United nations two decades ago.
With 3. 5 billion years of research and development under her belt Mother Nature could be considered the world's most experienced biological engineer.
when it comes to dealing with biofouling or the unwanted build-up of biological material
Living nature is full of engineering marvels from the micro to the macro scale that have inspired mankind for centuries says Bharat Bhushan senior author of the study and director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio-and Nanotechnology and Biomimetics
Preventing the build up of biological matter on a ship's hull for example could increase the efficiency of the ship's movement ultimately leading to more efficient fuel usage.
Some of the ways of learning that we have thought were distinctly human are shared more broadly across nonhuman primates said study co-author Andrew Whiten a cognitive biologist at the University of St andrews in the United kingdom. Image Gallery:
The loss of lives and property increased every decade in the past century according to a 2001 study in the journal Conservation Biology by Keeley and USGS ecologist C. J. Fotheringham.
Biology Institute and several research universities. Prescribed burning intended to remove dead wood and fuel before fire season does help control fires in Western conifer forests like the tall giants of Sequoia National park in Northern California.
Without fire fighters at the breaks however flames skip past the gaps found a study led by ecologist Alexandra Syphard of the Conservation Biology Institute in the June 2011 issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management.
and the Pacific ocean said Keith Bensen a biologist at Redwood National park. It's strange to have an animal with webbed feet in the forest he said.
Unless more eggs survive the central California population will go extinct within a century according to a 2010 study published in the journal Biological Conservation.
To boost California's murrelet numbers biologists in California's Redwood national and state parks are fighting back against Steller's jays and their human enablers.
even more of the marauding birds will invade campgrounds to compete for vacant territory biologists have concluded.
Plus jays are part of the natural ecosystem said Richard Golightly a biologist at Humboldt State university in California.
Reducing predation on murrelet nests by 40 percent to 70 percent would stabilize the Santa cruz Mountains murrelet population according to the 2010 study published in the journal Biological Conservation.
and biologists to pursue additional studies regarding the bats'diet and breeding patterns. Follow Laura Poppick on Twitter.
When you have less body fat you get many biological benefits and feel better. 4. If symptoms persist (though they will not in most cases you may be one of the rare people who are gluten sensitive though hopefully not as it's a tough life.
Anna Sapone of the Mucosal Biology Research center and Center for Celiac Research and her colleagues at the University of Maryland School of medicine reported on
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