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Promiscuous frogs spread egg risk
Research on a species of frog has found that the female frogs deliberately mate with up to eight different males, making sure that all their eggs don’t end up in...
Whale songs are heard for the first time around New York City waters
For the first time in waters surrounding New York City, the beckoning calls of endangered fin, humpback and North Atlantic right whales have been recorded, according to experts from the...
Genes Capable Of Regulating Stem Cell Function Identified
An animal model provides insight on pathways used for adult tissue maintenance and regeneration; system for studying relationship between stem cells and cancer. Scientists have developed a new system in...
Pores Open The Door To Death
Scientists settle the question as to how our immune defenses enter and attack its own cells when they fall prey to viruses and tumor cells.
New Pacific Iguana Discovered In Fiji
A new iguana has been discovered in the central regions of Fiji. The colorful new species, named Brachylophus bulabula, joins only two other living Pacific iguana species, one of which...
Fastest Flights In Nature: High-speed Spore Discharge Mechanisms Among Fungi
Microscopic coprophilous (dung-loving fungi) make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of feces produced by herbivores. But the fungi have a problem: survival depends upon the consumption...
Viral 'Magic Bullet' Targets Cancer Cells With Help Of New Compound
Researchers report a significant breakthrough in the use of viruses to target and destroy cancer cells, a field known as oncolytic virotherapy.
Scientists count Montana grizzly bears
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. government-led study estimates there are about 765 grizzly bears living in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.
Bird malaria helps plan for bird flu
A study is tracking avian malaria in birds migrating through Northern Australia, to find out what routes bird flu might take if it spread into Australian birds.
Mixed fish offspring disadvantaged
Research has found that guppy families with offspring from two different fathers have more trouble surviving, because they’re less inclined to stick together.
A California frog may be about to get room to stretch its red legs
Errors by a former federal official took land from the red-legged frog, a threatened species. Now an agency wants to rectify that. ...
Feds keeping Northern Rockies wolf listed for now
(AP) -- The government won't immediately try to take gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list, a federal wildlife official said Tuesday.
Endangered species: Starving guillemots push rival chicks off cliffs
Desperate reaction to collapsing fish stocks sees birds turn to infanticide on Scotland's Isle of May
Bush-Meat Ban Would Devastate Africa's Animals, Poor?
A total crackdown on the trade of wild animals for food could prove disastrous for people in Central Africa, who have few alternative sources of protein and income, experts say....
Toilet-Paper Researchers Create 3-Ply Tissue
If two-ply toilet paper is good, then three-ply tissue must be better. At least that's what toilet-paper researchers in northeastern Wisconsin hope.
Cutting calories could limit muscle wasting in later years
Chemical concoctions can smooth over wrinkles and hide those pesky grays, but what about the signs of aging that aren't so easy to fix, such as losing muscle mass? Cutting...
Engineered stem cells carry promising ALS therapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using adult stem cells from bone marrow as "Trojan horses"to deliver a nurturing growth factor to atrophied muscles, Wisconsin scientists have successfully slowed the progression of ALS in...
Evidence of evolutionary selection found in 544 genes
(PhysOrg.com) -- By comparing the genomes of humans and five other mammals, Cornell researchers have identified 544 genes that have been shaped by positive selection over millions of years of...
The New Genetics
Epigenetics is the idea that, contrary to decades of genetic theory, your genetic code isn’t the only thing that controls how your cells behave. Scientists now realize that chemicals and...
Making Stem Cells from Skin
Embryonic stem cells, which can be coaxed to turn into any kind of cell type, have been hailed as a 21st-century panacea. But they are fraught with ethical problems because...
Scientists decode first Arab genome
An international team of researchers has sequenced the first human genome from the Arab population.
Sorry, You're Just Not My (Testosterone's) Type
Hormones are no longer responsible just for teenage angst and questionable food cravings; new research shows these temperamental chemicals also dictate the type of person to which you are attracted....
Why some primates, but not humans, can live with immunodeficiency viruses and not progress to AIDS
Key differences in immune system signaling and the production of specific immune regulatory molecules may explain why some primates are able to live with an immunodeficiency virus infection without progressing...
Whale whisperer teaches beluga to 'talk'
A Japanese researcher says he has taught a beluga whale to "talk" by using sounds to identify three different objects, offering hope that humans may one day be able to...
Burnham Researcher Awarded $8 Million Grant
Burnham Institute announced that Dr. Stuart A. Lipton, professor and director of the Del E. Webb Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research Center at Burnham, has been awarded $8 million...
Pharmacies suspected of selling free samples
The P.E.I. Pharmacy Board is looking for help from the public to find out if some pharmacies on the Island are selling for full price drugs that were provided as...
Habitation harms turtle fertility
Research has found that turtles nesting on beaches with permanent human development lay less eggs than turtles on other beaches.
Deep bacteria influence oil quality
Researchers have found that living colonies of bacteria in deep oil reserves, up to two kilometers underground, are changing the quality of the oil.