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Humans, sharks share immune-system feature

A central element of the immune system has remained constant through more than 400 million years of evolution, according to new research at National Jewish Health. In the September 29, 2011, online version ...

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fish jump into picture of evolutionary land invasion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research sometimes means looking for one thing and finding another. Such was the case when biology professor Alice Gibb and her research team at Northern Arizona University witnessed a small ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Shy trout size it up

Personality is not just a feature unique to humans and pets. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) have revealed that also brown trout have individual characters and show different personalities.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lower costs

Traditional drug manufacturing is a time-consuming process. Active pharmaceutical ingredients are synthesized in a chemical manufacturing plant and then shipped to another site, where they are converted into ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Climate threatens trout and salmon

Trout and salmon are among the world's most familiar freshwater fishes, but numbers have fallen over recent decades - in some areas, dramatically.

Biology / Ecology

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Wild rainbow trout critical to health of steelhead populations

Genetic research is showing that healthy steelhead runs in Pacific Northwest streams can depend heavily on the productivity of their stay-at-home counterparts, rainbow trout.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Changing climate could cut western trout habitat in half: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study shows a changing climate could reduce trout habitat in the Western United States by about 50 percent over the next 70 years, with some trout species experiencing greater declines than others. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Evidence of ancient lake in California's Eel River emerges

A catastrophic landslide 22,500 years ago dammed the upper reaches of northern California's Eel River, forming a 30-mile-long lake, which has since disappeared, and leaving a living legacy found today in the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hatchery fish may hurt efforts to sustain wild salmon runs

Steelhead trout that are originally bred in hatcheries are so genetically impaired that, even if they survive and reproduce in the wild, their offspring will also be significantly less successful at reproducing, according ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Long-term lake study suggests ecological mechanism may control destructive crayfish

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few years ago, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's research station in Boulder Junction, Wis., were growing sick of a crustacean delicacy - the rusty crayfish. Roughly ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Gray seals consume as much fish as the fishing industry catches

The grey seals in the Baltic Sea compete for fish with the fishing industry. The seals locally eat about the same quantities of cod, common whitefish, salmon, sea trout and eel as those taken by fishermen. This is the conclusion ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Lagoon size can be predicted

(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of Santa Barbara area lagoons can be predicted, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, who say that their research could help protect the endangered steelhead trout.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

What's in a name? Lots for the newly discovered

The nearly three century old method for naming newly discovered nature will face a rebellion this Friday at Yale University.

Biology / Other

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

VHS virus infects fish via their gills

Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) is a highly contagious disease of rainbow trout in fresh water, causing great economic loss in the European trout farming industry. In his doctorate, Bjørn Erik ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nociception and Pain in Teleost Fish

For her doctorate, Janicke Nordgreen has studied nociception and pain in teleost fish. Her conclusion is that it is very likely the fish feel pain.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0