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Carnivores: Beware of Ticks
July 24, 2012 — If you are a steak lover, enjoy your meat while you can. A new article explains why if you have been bitten by a tick, you may develop an allergy to red ... > full story -
Spiders and Ticks
Materials Science
Spintronics
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Biotechnology and Bioengineering
The Future of Biomaterial Manufacturing: Spider Silk Production from Bacteria
July 18, 2012 — New research demonstrates procedures to harvest and process synthetic spider silk from bacteria. The procedure revolutionizes the spider silk purification process by standardizing a key step known as ... > full story -
Force of Nature: Defining the Mechanical Mechanisms in Living Cells
July 16, 2012 — Researchers measured mechanical tension at the nanoscale to explore how living cells produce and detect force. The research could lead to a better understanding of how tissues and tumors form and ... > full story -
Protein Found in Spider Venom Could Treat Muscular Dystrophy
July 16, 2012 — When a stockbroker from the Buffalo suburbs discovered that his grandson had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, he turned to medical researchers for help in developing a treatment. He found a promising new ... > full story -
Are Brown Widows Displacing Black Widow Spiders Around Southern California Homes?
July 2, 2012 — Brown widow spiders are relatively new to North America, where they were first documented in Florida in 1935, and even newer to southern California, where they were only recently discovered in 2003. ... > full story -
Novel Animal Reservoir for Group of Tick-Borne Diseases Discovered -- And It Lives in Your Backyard
June 23, 2012 — A new assay that uses mitochondrial DNA that mutates faster than nuclear DNA has allowed scientists to identify one of the major animal reservoirs for the ehlichioses, STARI and other tick-borne ... > full story -
Spiders Enlisted in Fight Against Woodworms: Could They Also Help Control Malaria?
June 21, 2012 — Property owners who need to banish destructive woodworm could have an eight-legged alternative to chemical sprays that are potentially dangerous and only partially effective. They could enlist ... > full story -
Increase in Lyme Disease Mirrors Drop in Red Fox Numbers
June 18, 2012 — A continued increase of Lyme disease in the United States, once linked to a recovering deer population, may instead be explained by a decline of the red fox, researchers suggest in a new ... > full story -
Grasshoppers Frightened by Spiders Affect Whole Ecosystem
June 14, 2012 — Grasshoppers ‘stressed’ by spiders affect the productivity of our soil. A grasshopper who is in fear of an attacker, such as a spider, will enter a situation of stress and will consume a ... > full story -
Spiders and Ticks
Insects (including Butterflies)
Mating and Breeding
Animals
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Pests and Parasites
Vampire Jumping Spiders Identify Victims by Their Antennae
June 7, 2012 — Ravenous Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders -- vampire spiders -- have very specific tastes: they prefer to dine on blood-engorged female Anopheles mosquitoes. So how do they pick out female ... > full story
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