Plants use underground networks to warn of enemy attack
Large-scale edible insect farming needed to ensure global food security
The cicadas are rising: US invasion in 5, 4, 3...
The hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the US, with millions of the large cricket-like insects poised to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait. The first of the bugs that are ...
May 14, 2013
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Researchers find correlation between face shape and procreation rates and rank in male soldiers
Study assesses impact of pending landmark US Supreme Court case on gene patents
(Phys.org) —As the U.S. Supreme Court moves closer to a decision this summer in the landmark gene patent case against Myriad Genetics, a study, led by Colorado State University, is shedding light on what ...
May 10, 2013
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Study suggests link between tumor suppressors and starvation survival
A particular tumor suppressor gene that fights cancer cells does more than clamp down on unabated cell division—the hallmark of the disease—it also can help make cells more fit by allowing them to fend ...
May 10, 2013
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Cutting-edge bacteria research leads to more effective treatment of complex infections
Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves. Therefore they will try to avoid getting attacked by the human immune system, and therefore they have developed ...
May 14, 2013
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EGF growth factor accelerates cell division, study finds
Biologists at Heidelberg University have discovered new approaches for the treatment of cancer. They investigated how a special signalling molecule, the epidermal growth factor (EGF), stimulates the separation of chromosomes ...
May 14, 2013
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Water governs cell movement
Water gives life. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show how the cells in our bodies are driven mainly by water power – a discovery that in the long run opens the way for a new strategy ...
May 14, 2013
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Flower power fights orchard pests
Mining the botulinum genome
(Norwich BioScience Institutes) Scientists at the Institute of Food Research have been mining the genome of C. botulinum to uncover new information about the toxin genes that produce the potent toxin behind ...
May 14, 2013
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A closer look at the GM debate
In the first chapter of The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin detailed his examinations of the skeletons of a variety of different breeds of domestic pigeons. To agreement today, he concluded that they a ...
May 02, 2013
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When green means danger: A stunning new species of palm-pitviper from Honduras
US Supreme Court finds for Monsanto in seed patent battle (Update 2)
The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto Monday over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated the genetically-modified crops developed by the agribusiness giant.
May 13, 2013
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Farm-raised salmon retains healthy omega-3s when baked
