Genetic diversity is essential for a species to be able to adapt to environmental change, and when habitat loss divides a population into small, isolated fragments, that can spell trouble. Northeastern California is at the ...
Ecology
Sep 16, 2015
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The mountain bell shrub, which is partly named after Charles Darwin's grandfather, can be examined at a molecular level for the first time in Albany after the installation of a state-of-the-art genetics laboratory.
Biotechnology
Sep 11, 2015
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Tropical rainforests could largely disappear by the end of the century, warns a new report commissioned by the Club of Rome.
Environment
Sep 2, 2015
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The careful examination of fossil fragments from Panama has led Smithsonian scientists and colleagues to the discovery of a new genus and species of river dolphin that has been long extinct. The team named it Isthminia panamensis. ...
Archaeology
Sep 1, 2015
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White-tailed eagles detect and avoid the ingestion of large metal particles (larger than 8 mm) but ignore smaller metal particles whilst feeding on shot mammalian carcasses. Lead-based bullets split into numerous small metal ...
Ecology
Aug 31, 2015
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A team from the University of Leeds, UK, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, surveyed bats in the southern Western Ghats, in the first detailed study of the impact ...
Ecology
Aug 19, 2015
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Widespread drought-sensitive butterfly population extinctions could occur in the UK as early as 2050 according to a new study published today in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change.
Environment
Aug 10, 2015
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Professor Hyun-Gyu Park of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a technique to analyze various target DNAs using an aptamer, a ...
Biotechnology
Aug 2, 2015
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Dogs' special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 21. Earlier genome-based estimates ...
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2015
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With certain critical treatments, personalised care includes the ability to monitor the concentration of medicines in the patient's body, in order to adjust the treatment. Researchers at EPFL have come up with a quick and ...
Biochemistry
May 11, 2015
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