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Study: Migrating birds learn survival tips
KINGSTON, Ontario, June 30 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say they've discovered migrating songbirds learn survival cues from local birds when flying through unfamiliar territory.
Migraine Mutations Reveal Clues To Biological Basis Of Disorder
By studying a rare, inherited form of migraine, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found clues to the biological basis of the painful, debilitating disorder.
New research could lead to no scent, no sex for the Japanese beetle
No scent. No sex. If a male Japanese beetle is unable to detect the sex pheromone released by a female, he won't be able to locate her and reproduce.
Census Of Marine Life Lists 122,500 Known Species, Over Halfway To Complete Inventory By Oct. 2010
Census of Marine Life-affiliated scientists consolidating world databases of ocean organisms have demoted to alias status almost one-third of all names culled so far from 34 regional and highly specialized...
A simple therapy for brain injury
Severe brain injury due to blunt force trauma could be reduced by application of a simple polymer, Polyethylene glycol or PEG, mixed in sterile water and injected into the blood...
Mechanism Explains Calcium Abnormalities In Alzheimer's Brain
A new study uncovers a mechanism that directly links mutations that cause early onset Alzheimer's disease with aberrant calcium signaling. The research, published by Cell Press in the June 26...
New Research May Lead To Safer, More Effective Gene Therapy
A new study helps bring scientists closer to a safe and efficient gene delivery method that doesn't involve viruses. Researchers have created a novel synthetic gene vector that packages DNA...
Scientists take swat at mosquitoes
Science has some new solutions in the form of improved repellents, genetically modified mosquitoes, and new approaches to vaccine design, as well as some science-based ideas you can put to...
Fishing Poll: Taking a Census of Ocean Species [Slide Show] [News]
There may not be too many fish in the sea, to paraphrase the old song, but there are certainly a lot. Scientists don't have a good idea of just how...
Cocoa Genome To Be Sequenced: May Benefit Millions Of Farmers, Help Sustain World's Chocolate Supply
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mars Inc., and IBM have announced a plan to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome. Sequencing the cocoa genome is a significant...
SEX4, Starch And Phosphorylation: Molecular Mechanisms Of Starch Breakdown In Plants
Mutational and structural analyses by Dr. Zeeman and his colleagues have revealed that starch degradation in Arabidopsis leaves at night differs significantly from the versions traditionally described in textbooks.
How To Build A Plant: Plant Architecture From The Genomics Toolbox
Dr. Sarah Hake and her colleagues, George Chuck, Hector Candela-Anton, Nathalie Bolduc, Jihyun Moon, Devin O'Connor, China Lunde, and Beth Thompson, have taken advantage of the information from sequenced grass...
New Study Opening New Route For Combating Viruses
A unique technique for analyzing the function of microRNAs has led to the discovery of a new mechanism by which viruses evade the human immune system. This discovery has important...
Neuroscientists Discover A Sense Of Adventure
Wellcome Trust scientists have identified a key region of the brain which encourages us to be adventurous. The region, located in a primitive area of the brain, is activated when...
NYU biologists show how eye's neurons switch functions during metamorphosis
Researchers at New York University's Center for Developmental Genetics report that the photoreceptors in an insect's eye can change their traditional functions during metamorphosis. The study appears in the most...
Major Lion Die Offs Linked to Climate Change
Extreme droughts and downpours allowed two diseases to converge and wipe out large numbers of African lions in 1994 and 2001, a new study says.
Birds that boogie
Online videos of 'dancing' cockatoos are not flukes but the first genuine evidence of animal dancing.
Giant memory thanks to tiny capacitors
German-Korean research team produces a permanent memory using a new procedure and thereby sets a memory density record.
Protein discovery may bolster antibiotic development
A team of scientists from Queen`s University has discovered the first ever three-dimensional structure of a protein family that may help in developing more effective antibiotics.
Estimation of isolation times in the Drosophila simulans complex
The Drosophila simulans species complex continues to serve as an important model system for the study of new species formation. The complex is comprised of the cosmopolitan species, D. simulans,...
Burma blocks emergency telecoms
Two teams of emergency telecoms workers leave cyclone-hit Burma after their efforts are blocked.
Brains work in analogue too
New research has proved that electrical communication in the brain can work in analogue as well as digital, a finding that could help explain brain disorders.
Stem cell research from an ethical point of view
Stem cell research and the potential use of human embryonic stem cells in clinical therapy is a controversial issue which splits both scientific and public opinion. The current conflict over...
Scientists seek to sort sundry names for sealife
(AP) -- The underwater world and the underworld have at least one thing in common - lots of aliases. The Census of Marine Life, an effort to catalog all...
One step closer to green chemistry and improved pharmaceuticals
Proteins are the workhorses of our cells. They help to digest our food, are at the core of our immune system, and literally shape our body from top to toe....
New protein that repairs DNA under extreme conditions
Mild environmental conditions are a prerequisite for life. Strong acids or dissolved metallic salts in high concentrations are detrimental to both humans and to simpler life forms, such as bacteria....
Wrong names for fish seen complicating conservation
OSLO (Reuters) - About a third of all types of fish and other marine life have been wrongly named by scientists, complicating efforts to conserve what could be a million...
Two Academic Collaborators Join SAEC to Help Further Drug Induced Liver Injury Research Effort
The International Serious Adverse Events Consortium (SAEC) announced today that two new leading academic centers will collaborate with this novel, international research Consortium, which is working to identify genetic markers...