New ballast treatment could protect Great Lakes fish
A Michigan Technological University professor has developed a new water treatment that could help keep a deadly fish disease out of Lake Superior.
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Probiotic bacteria protect endangered frogs from lethal skin disease
Laboratory tests and field studies conducted by James Madison University (JMU) researchers continue to show promise that probiotic bacteria can be used to help amphibian populations, including the endangered yellow-legged ...
Jun 4, 2008
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Memory in honeybees: What the right and left antenna tell the left and right brain
It is widely known that the right and left hemispheres of the brain perform different tasks. Lesions to the left hemisphere typically bring impairments in language production and comprehension, while lesions to the right ...
Jun 4, 2008
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Cartilage regeneration '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'
Bioengineers at Rice University have discovered that intense pressure -- similar to what someone would experience more than a half-mile beneath the ocean's surface -- stimulates cartilage cells to grow new tissue with nearly ...
Jun 4, 2008
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Parasitoid turns its host into a bodyguard
There are many examples of parasites that induce spectacular changes in the behaviour of their host. Flukes, for example, are thought to induce ants, their intermediate host, to move up onto blades of grass during the night ...
Jun 4, 2008
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Mammalian neurogenesis breaks into the most static brain region
Fifteen years ago, the discovery of adult neurogenesis (the production of new neurons) in the highly static, non-renewable mammalian brain was a breakthrough in neuroscience. Most emphasis was put on the possibility to figure ...
Jun 4, 2008
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New Zealand bird outwits alien predators
New research published in this week's PLoS ONE, led by Dr Melanie Massaro and Dr Jim Briskie at the University of Canterbury, which found that the New Zealand bellbird is capable of changing its nesting behaviour to protect ...
Jun 4, 2008
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Honeybee dance breaks down cultural barrier
Asian and European honeybees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having evolved different forms of communication, an international research team has shown for the first time. The findings are published ...
Jun 4, 2008
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