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Rare white horse prancing around in his own special genes

There was no hanky-panky involved when a fairy-tale white foal was born to two brown Standardbreds at the Four Winds Farm in New Jersey. DNA tests confirm that the snowy foal, born May 6, is a mutant, but that's nothing to ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Computer-designed proteins programmed to disarm variety of flu viruses

Computer-designed proteins are under construction to fight the flu. Researchers are demonstrating that proteins found in nature, but that do not normally bind the flu, can be engineered to act as broad-spectrum ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Training cells to perform boolean functions? It's logical

(Phys.org) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have engineered cells that behave like AND and OR Boolean logic gates, producing an output based on one or more unique inputs. This feat, published in the May issue of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA discovery key to drought resistant crops

(Phys.org) -- Scientists have pinpointed the ‘stay green' DNA in barley in new research that may help farmers to grow better crops in areas of drought, heat and salinity.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors: study

Humans, fish and frogs share neural circuits responsible for a diversity of social behavior, from flashy mating displays to aggression and monogamy, that have existed for more than 450 million years, biologists at The University ...

Biology / Other

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sex: it's a good thing, evolutionarily speaking

(Phys.org) -- Sure, sex may be fun, but it’s a lot of work, and the payoff is by no means certain. Scientists have speculated for a long time on why all living things don’t simply make like amoebas ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tomato genome fully sequenced

For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded, and it becomes an important step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the tomato and ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower

Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Newly modified nanoparticle opens window on future gene editing technologies

The scientific and technological literature is abuzz with nanotechnology and its manufacturing and medical applications. But it is in an area with a less glitzy aura—plant sciences—where nanotechnology ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Deterring signals: Tobacco plants advertise their defensive readiness to attacking leafhoppers

Following herbivory, plants produce jasmonic acid, a hormone which activates several plant defense reactions. Scientists found that leafhoppers can evaluate whether tobacco plants are ready for defense when attacked. If jasmonate-signaling ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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