News tagged with genetic uniformity

Mice living in sandy hills quickly evolved lighter coloration

In a vivid illustration of natural selection at work, scientists at Harvard University have found that deer mice living in Nebraska's Sand Hills quickly evolved lighter coloration after glaciers deposited ...

Biology / Evolution

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 9




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Thousands of invisibility cloaks trap a rainbow

Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cloaks.

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new layer of genetic information that helps determine how fast proteins are produced

A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Increased honey bee diversity means fewer pathogens, more helpful bacteria

A novel study of honey bee genetic diversity co-authored by an Indiana University biologist has for the first time found that greater diversity in worker bees leads to colonies with fewer pathogens and more ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hunting could hurt genetic diversity of sandhill cranes, research suggests

(PhysOrg.com) -- As Wisconsin lawmakers debate whether to establish a hunting season for sandhill cranes, they may want to consider more than just the sheer number of birds, suggests a University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers sequence 'dark matter of life'

Researchers have developed a new method to sequence and analyze the dark matter of life—the genomes of thousands of bacteria species previously beyond scientists' reach, from microorganisms that produce ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover a switch that controls stem cell pluripotency

Scientists have found a control switch that regulates stem cell "pluripotency," the capacity of stem cells to develop into any type of cell in the human body. The discovery reveals that pluripotency is regulated by a single ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Before DNA: 20th-century forensics

Historians tend to see the birth of DNA fingerprinting in 1985 as a watershed in forensic investigation - the moment that gave birth to the systematic crime scene analysis we associate with TV programmes like ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

1001 Genome-Project: On the way to a complete catalog of the Arabidopsis genome

People can develop new technologies and animals may migrate to other regions. However, plants are tied to their location. Nevertheless, they have found ways to ensure their survival. This is the case for the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mathematicians, biologists explain why vertebrate intestines are so predictably loopy

Between conception and birth, the human gut grows more than two meters long, looping and coiling within the tiny abdomen. Within a given species, the developing vertebrate gut always loops into the same formation—however, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Climate will damage reefs at 'different rates'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change and acidifying ocean water are likely to have a highly variable impact on the world's coral reefs in space, time and diversity, according to an international team of coral scientists, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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