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Plant Derivative Could Help Refine Cancer Treatment
Researchers are seeking to
refine cancer treatment with
an anti-inflammatory plant
derivative long used in
Chinese medicine. ... > full story
How Respiratory Tubes and Capillaries Form in Flies
Scientists in Spain report
on the formation of the
small-diameter respiratory
tubes of the fly Drosophila
-- a process that resembles
the development of the
... > full story
Evolution Impacts Environment: Fundamental Shift in How Biologists Perceive Relationship Between Evolution and Ecology
The traditional view is that
ecology shapes evolution.
Some research has suggested,
however, that evolutionary
processes reciprocate by
... > full story
Small Insect With a Big Heart: 'Giving' Aphids Endangered by Their Selflessness
One of the founding
principles of Darwin's
theory is that biological
evolution has been shaped by
the survival of the fittest.
... > full story
- Plant Derivative Could Help Refine Cancer Treatment
- How Respiratory Tubes and Capillaries Form in Flies
- Evolution Impacts Environment: Fundamental Shift in How Biologists Perceive Relationship Between Evolution and Ecology
- Small Insect With a Big Heart: 'Giving' Aphids Endangered by Their Selflessness
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Marijuana Ineffective as an Alzheimer's Treatment
February 9, 2010 — The benefits of marijuana in tempering or reversing the effects of Alzheimer's disease have been challenged in a new ... > full story -
Mediterranean Diet May Lower Risk of Brain Damage That Causes Thinking Problems
February 9, 2010 — A Mediterranean diet may help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can lead to problems with thinking and memory, according to a new ... > full story -
Will Earlier Springs Throw Nature out of Step?
February 9, 2010 — The recent trend towards earlier UK springs and summers has been accelerating, according to a new study. The research is the most comprehensive and rigorous assessment so far of long-term changes in ... > full story -
Complete Chemokine Profile of a Cell
February 9, 2010 — Chemokines are a large group of proteins whose predominant function is to direct cell migration. They regulate many physiological and pathophysiological processes, in particular in the immune system. ... > full story -
Method of the Future Uses Single-Cell Imaging to Identify Gene Interactions
February 9, 2010 — Cellular imaging offers a wealth of data about how cells respond to stimuli, but harnessing this technique to study biological systems is a daunting challenge. Researchers have now developed a novel ... > full story -
Conservation from Space: Landscape Diversity Helps to Conserve Insects
February 8, 2010 — Rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations and thus aid their conservation, according to new findings. This has implications ... > full story -
Like Escape Artists, Rotifers Elude Enemies by Drying Up and -- Poof! -- They Are Gone With the Wind
February 8, 2010 — They haven't had sex in some 30 million years, but some very small invertebrates named bdelloid rotifers are still shocking biologists -- they should have gone extinct long ago. Researchers have ... > full story -
Agricultural Scientists Turn to a Wild Oat to Combat Crown Rust
February 8, 2010 — Scientists are tapping into the DNA of a wild oat, considered by some to be a noxious weed, to see if it can help combat crown rust, the most damaging fungal disease of oats ... > full story -
Bees Recognize Human Faces Using Feature Configuration
February 8, 2010 — Bees can be trained to recognize human faces, so long as the insects are tricked into thinking that the faces are oddly shaped flowers, new research shows. The insects use the arrangement of facial ... > full story -
Argonautes: A Big Turn-Off for Proteins
February 8, 2010 — Scientists believe they may have figured out how genetic snippets called microRNAs are able to shut down the production of some ... > full story
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