Archive: 05/28/2008
Giant flying reptiles preferred to walk
New research into gigantic flying reptiles has found that they weren’t all gull-like predators grabbing fish from the water but that some were strongly adapted for life on the ground.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 28, 2008 |
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Researchers retrieve authentic Viking DNA from 1,000-year-old skeletons
Although “Viking” literally means “pirate,” recent research has indicated that the Vikings were also traders to the fishmongers of Europe. Stereotypically, these Norsemen are usually pictured wearing a horned helmet but in ...
Biology /
May 28, 2008 |
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SF State scientists expose new threat to spotted owl
A new study provides a baseline distribution of blood parasites and strains in Spotted Owls, suggesting a more fragile immune health than previously understood for the already threatened Northern and California Spotted Owls.
Biology /
May 28, 2008 |
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Secondhand smoke increases hospital admissions for all types of infectious diseases
Children exposed to second hand tobacco smoke are more likely to get severe infectious diseases and have to be admitted to hospital, finds research published online ahead of print in Tobacco Control.
May 28, 2008 |
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Large-scale community protein annotation -- WikiProteins
Today sees the launch of a new collaborative website initially focusing on proteins and their role in biology and medicine. The WikiProfessional technology underlying the site has been developed based upon the collaborative ...
Biology /
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Family feuds -- why close relatives keep their distance in the animal kingdom
Mammals cannot share their habitat with closely related species because the need for the same kind of food and shelter would lead them to compete to the death, according to new research out today in Proceedings of ...
Biology /
May 28, 2008 |
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Tourists to the Caribbean should pay 1 dollar each to help fight tropical diseases of poverty
Away from the beaches, resorts, and cruise ships of the Caribbean, there lies a hidden underbelly of poverty and with this poverty comes endemic neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). In an editorial in this month's PLoS Ne ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Olfactory receptor neurons select which odor receptors to express
It may appear difficult to reconcile the fact that almost every cell in the body of an animal has an identical dose of genes with the variety of different appearances and properties cells can display—bone, skin, hair, muscle, ...
Biology /
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Scientists in Japan design first optical pacemaker for laboratory research
The world's first optical pacemaker is described in an article published today in Optics Express, the Optical Society’s open-access journal. A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan show that powerful, but very s ...
May 28, 2008 |
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