Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a software based on the discovery of some algorithms that enable the identification of each individual, therefore allowing their tracking within ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 1, 2014
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New research at the University of Southampton into how animals keep time through their internal circadian rhythms could help us understand why we sleep and how we cope with jet lag.
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2014
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Speed-reading is a technique used to read quickly. It involves visual searching for clues to meaning and skipping non-essential words and/ or sentences. Similarly to humans, biological systems are sometimes under selective ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 23, 2014
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A group of scientists from Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute and UC Berkeley report the first mapping of genome methylation in the fruit-fly Drosophila melanogaster in their paper "Genome methylation in D. melanogaster ...
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2014
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A presentation at Genetics Society of America's Drosophila Research Conference builds the case that de novo genes derived from ancestral non-coding DNA can spread through a species.
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Scientists from Indiana University are part of a consortium that has described the transcriptome of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster in unprecedented detail, identifying thousands of new genes, transcripts ...
Biotechnology
Mar 18, 2014
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New research from the University of Toronto Scarborough shows that animal dispersal is influenced by a gene associated with feeding and food search behaviours.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2014
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The circadian clock is a molecular network that generates daily rhythms, and is present in both plants and animals.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 24, 2014
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NASA finds the common fruit fly—Drosophila melanogaster—quite an attractive "model," but not in the way you might think. This tiny insect is a biomedical research model that can reveal the basis for health and disease ...
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2013
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Queen's University professor Adam Chippindale (Biology) and PhD candidate Christopher Kimber appear to have revealed an anomaly in the evolutionary theory of aging.
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2013
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