Biology News Net

Tuesday th 3rd of June 2008

Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked, study shows - 18:49

Gene that magnetically labels cells shows potential as imaging tool - 18:49

Microsurgery on the brain of the fruit fly leads to new insights into irreparable nerve injuries - 18:49

Mouse ovaries and testes age in unique ways - 18:49

Climate change could impact vital functions of microbes - 18:49

A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice - 18:49

Monday th 2nd of June 2008

Gene therapy involving antibiotics may help patients with Usher syndrome - 21:07

The good news in our DNA: Defects you can fix with vitamins and minerals - 21:07

New fingerprint breakthrough by forensic scientists - 21:07

For barn swallows, feathers make the man, says CU-Boulder study - 21:07

Toad research could leapfrog to new muscle model - 21:07

Complex dynamics underlie bark beetle eruptions - 12:07

Brown Argus butterfly sees positive effects of climate change - 12:07

Genetic mutation linked to walking on all fours - 12:07

Sunday th 1st of June 2008

Living fossils have long- and short-term memory - 15:07

New stem cell therapy may aid the repair of damaged brains - 15:07

Ecological globalization - 15:07

Friday th 30th of May 2008

Golf prolongs life - 15:49

Yale researchers clear up Alzheimer's plaques in mice - 15:49

Self-assembled viruses - 15:49

Thursday th 29th of May 2008

Fruit fly helps identify protein critical to eggshell formation that may be pesticide target - 16:35

Rapid wound healing - 16:35

How defects in 1 gene cause 3 distinct and devastating human diseases - 16:35

New HIV browser gives researchers access to valuable data from vaccine trials - 16:35

A common aquatic animal's genome can capture foreign DNA - 16:35

Forest canopies help determine natural fertilization rates - 16:35

Did walking on 2 feet begin with a shuffle? - 16:35

The Rett gene -- a rogue activator - 16:35

No sex, but plenty of gene transfer - 16:35

Wednesday th 28th of May 2008

Bacteria 'feed' on earth's ocean-bottom crust - 15:56

Sugar-coated antibiotics - 15:56

Life, but not as we know it? - 15:56

When your memories can no longer be trusted - 15:56

New study reveals brain cell mechanism of alcohol dependence - 15:56

Mice mothers devote energies to offspring when life is threatened - 15:56

Mind over matter: Monkey feeds itself using its brain - 15:56

Intestinal bacteria promote -- and prevent! -- inflammatory bowel disease - 15:56

Protein plays key role in transmitting deadly malaria parasite - 15:56

Tuesday th 27th of May 2008

How buckyballs hurt cells - 14:28

Weizmann Institute scientists produce the first smell map - 14:28

When plants 'think' alike - 14:28

Battling bird flu by the numbers - 14:28

Research reveals molecular fingerprint of cocaine addiction - 14:28

What makes life go at the tropics? - 14:28

New cheaper method for mapping disease genes - 14:28

Leiden scientists sequence first female DNA - 14:28

When the butterfly bush blossoms - 14:28

Monday th 26th of May 2008

Courtship pattern shaped by emergence of a new gene in fruit flies - 18:35

Cocoa could be a healthy treat for diabetic patients - 18:35

Scientists image a single HIV particle being born - 00:35