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Genome sequencing complete on plodding amoeba that flips into free-swimming flagellate (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the long evolutionary road from bacteria to humans, a major milestone occurred some 1.5 billion years ago when microbes started building closets for all their stuff, storing DNA inside a nucleus, for example, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Ancestors of land plants revealed

It was previously thought that land plants evolved from stonewort-like algae. However, new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology shows that the closest relatives to land plants ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Unlocking the secrets of our compulsions

Researchers have shed new light on dopamine's role in the brain's reward system, which could provide insight into impulse control problems associated with addiction and a number of psychiatric disorders.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Origins of multicellularity: All in the family

One of the most pivotal steps in evolution-the transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms-may not have required as much retooling as commonly believed, found a globe-spanning collaboration of scientists ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biosensors reveal how single bacterium gets the message to split into a swimming and a stay-put cell

Some species of bacteria perform an amazing reproductive feat. When the single-celled organism splits in two, the daughter cell - the swarmer - inherits a propeller to swim freely. The mother cell builds a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers track bacteria's kayak paddle-like motion for first time

Yale engineers have for the first time observed and tracked E. coli bacteria moving in a liquid medium with a motion similar to that of a kayak paddle.

Physics / Soft Matter

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'McDonalization' of frogs: Frog fungus hammering biodiversity of communities

Sometimes to see something properly, you have to stand farther back. This is true of Chuck Close portraits where a patchwork of many small faces changes into one giant face as you back away.

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Jellyfish joyride a threat to the oceans

Early action could be crucial to addressing the problem of major increases in jellyfish numbers, which appears to be the result of human activities.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Diuscovery in amber reveals ancient biology of termites

The analysis of a termite entombed for 100 million years in an ancient piece of amber has revealed the oldest example of "mutualism" ever discovered between an animal and microorganism, and also shows the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Study shows how algae may cope with environmental change

Scientists from two-dozen research organizations led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have decoded genomes of two ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Turbocharged Nanomotors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanorobots that are introduced into the body to eradicate tumor cells or clean out clogged arteries are not just science fiction; they are a realistic vision of the technological possibilities of the not-so-distant ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 4


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