General Research - eBioNews

General Research - eBioNews

Animal Sciences

Study Provides Better Understanding of How Mosquitoes Find a Host

Decoding the Long Calls of the Orangutan

Natural Antioxidants Give Top Barn Swallows a Leg on Competitors

Snake Venom Charms Science World: Novel Protein from King Cobra as Drug Discovery

Artificial Bee Silk a Big Step Closer to Reality

Afghanistan protects newly rediscovered rare bird

If bonobo Kanzi can point as humans do, what other similarities can rearing reveal?

Endangered Species Research publishes theme section on biologging science

Baby monkeys receive signals through their mother's breast milk

A convincing mimic: Scientists report octopus imitating flounder in the Atlantic (w/ Video)

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Biochemistry & Biophysics

Brain Mechanism May Explain Alcohol Cravings That Drive Relapse

Unselfish Molecules May Have Helped Give Birth to the Genetic Material of Life

New Method to Grow Arteries Could Lead to 'Biological Bypass' for Heart Disease

Listening in on Single Cells: Novel Sensor Array Detects Single Molecules Produced by Living Cells

New Technique Allows Study of Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells

Virus Infections May Be Contributing Factor in Onset of Gluten Intolerance

Low Levels of Vitamin D Linked to Muscle Fat, Decreased Strength in Young People

Sorting Device for Analyzing Biological Reactions Puts the Power of a Lab in a Researcher’s Pocket

Imaging Studies Reveal Order in Programmed Cell Death

Mother's Milk Kick-Starts Liver to Produce Molecule That Turns on Heat-Generating Brown Fat

>> More in: Biochemistry & Biophysics

Biotechnology

Development of More Muscular Trout Could Boost Commercial Aquaculture

Genetically Engineered Tobacco Plant Cleans Up Environmental Toxin

Asexual Plant Reproduction May Seed New Approach for Agriculture

Reovirus May Be a Novel Approach to Prostate Cancer Treatment

New Technique Allows Study of Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells

Mosses, Deep-Frozen

Predicting the Fate of Stem Cells: New Method Decodes Cell Movements, Accurately Predicts How Cells Will Divide

New Basis for Drug Development: Structure Determination of Biomolecules in Their Natural Environment

Biologists Use Mathematics to Advance Our Understanding of Health and Disease

Novel Antitoxin Strategy Developed Using 'Tagged Binding Agents'

>> More in: Biotechnology

Ecology

Students Take Aim at Bear Spray Canisters

Development of More Muscular Trout Could Boost Commercial Aquaculture

Smell of Salt Air Surprisingly Detected a Mile High and 900 Miles Inland

'Globetrotting' New Worms Discovered on Great Barrier Reef and Swedish Coast

Exploring Echinacea's enigmatic origins

Interior: Grouse listing warranted but precluded

Geraniums could help control devastating Japanese beetle

Marshes Dying for Lack of Fresh Water at Maurepas Swamp, Louisiana, US

Most sea lions gone from Ore. coast

Understanding Global Climate Change Through New Breakthroughs in Polar Research

>> More in: Ecology

Evolution

Fossil Bird Eggshell Provides Source of Ancient DNA

Lizard Moms Choose the Right Genes for the Right Gender Offspring

Genome sequencing complete on plodding amoeba that flips into free-swimming flagellate

30 years later, what killed the dinosaurs is revisited

CSHL-Mexican team coaxes sexually reproducing plant to brink of asexual reproduction

Unselfish Molecules May Have Helped Give Birth to the Genetic Material of Life

Archaeologists Amend Written History of China's First Emperor

Drastic Musk Ox Population Decline 12,000 Years Ago Due to Climate, Not Humans, Study Finds

Climate Fluctuations 115,000 Years Ago: Were Short Warm Periods Typical for Transitions to Glacial Epochs?

Giant Stone Head of Ancient Egypt's King Amenhotep III Discovered

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Food Sciences

Women Who Drink Moderately Appear to Gain Less Weight Than Nondrinkers

Grocers React To Flavoring Recall Affecting Hundreds Of Foods

Report: Food-borne illnesses cost $152B yearly

Symrise concentrates umami in new flavour

UK Scientists Devise Worldwide Food Alert System

Vitamin D Lifts Mood During Cold Weather Months, Researchers Say

Foodborne Illness Costs US $152 Billion Annually, Landmark Report Estimates

Vitamins Stored in Bathrooms, Kitchens May Become Less Effective

Eliminating Junk Foods at Schools May Help Prevent Childhood Obesity

Supermarket Lighting Enhances Nutrient Level of Fresh Spinach

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Medical Sciences

Doctors Are Failing to Lower Heart Patients' Cholesterol Adequately, European Study Finds

African-American and Hispanic Patients With Heart Failure Less Likely to Use Hospice

Research Points to Way to Improve Heart Treatment

Novel Stroke Treatment Passes Safety Stage of Clinical Trial

Beta Blocker Therapy Underused in Heart Failure Patients, Study Finds

Aspirin Use Does Not Significantly Reduce Events Among Those Identified by Certain Screening Method

Using Own Skin Cells to Repair Hearts on Horizon: Biomedical Scientist Brings Stem Cell Research to University

Hospices Rarely Deactivate Defibrillators in Patients, Survey Finds

ECG Testing of Young Athletes Cost-Effective in Preventing Deaths, Study Shows

Coffee Associated With Reduced Risk of Hospitalization for Heart Rhythm Disturbances

>> More in: Medical Sciences

Microbiology

How Ocean Bacterium Turns Carbon Into Fuel

Can We Detect Quantum Behavior in Viruses?

Tough New Spuds Take on Double Trouble

Mineral Studies Advance Antibacterial Alternatives

Intestinal Bacteria Drive Obesity and Metabolic Disease in Immune-Altered Mice

Plant's Ability to Identify, Block Invading Bacteria Examined

Household Bacteria for Better Cheese

Newly Engineered Enzyme Is a Powerful Staph Antibiotic

Faster Method to Detect Bacterial Contamination in Coastal Waters Developed

Early Test for a Killer of the Sickest

>> More in: Microbiology

Plant Sciences

'World's Most Useful Tree' Provides New Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World

Complex Co-Dependency of Microfungi and Grass

Plants Discover the Benefits of Good Neighbors in Strategy Against Herbivores

Asexual Plant Reproduction May Seed New Approach for Agriculture

Exploring Echinacea’s Enigmatic Origins

From Carnivorous Plants to the Medicine Cabinet? Anti-Fungal Agents in Pitcher Plants Investigated

Researchers examine plant's ability to identify, block invading bacteria

Evidence of Increasing Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Microbes

Worlds Most Useful Tree' Provides New Low-Cost Water Purification Method for Developing World

Tough New Spuds Take on Double Trouble

>> More in: Plant Sciences

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