Layering minute amounts of Manuka honey between layers of surgical mesh acts as a natural antibiotic that could prevent infection following an operation, new research has shown.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2019
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple application of honey to horses' leg wounds results in smaller wound sizes and faster healing time, University of Sydney researchers have found.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2011
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Researchers have discovered that honey bees are able to share immunity with other bees and to their offspring in a hive by transmitting RNA 'vaccines' through royal jelly and worker jelly. The jelly is the bee equivalent ...
Ecology
May 2, 2019
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Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the mushroom bodies (a part ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2023
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Asked to name one way people have changed the environment, many people would probably say "global warming." But that's really just the start of it.
Ecology
Mar 24, 2015
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Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2009
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To the untrained eye beholding a beehive, all animals seem equal, but new research reveals that some are more equal than others.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 2, 2018
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Following the recent high-profile fake honey scandal, new and independent research from Macquarie University in collaboration with the National Measurement Institute has unveiled, for the first time, the scale of the adulteration ...
Economics & Business
Oct 8, 2018
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Swarms of bees and brains made up of neurons make decisions using strikingly similar mechanisms, says a new study in the Dec. 9 issue of Science.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2011
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Research conducted at the University of Adelaide has discovered that bees have much better vision than was previously known, offering new insights into the lives of honey bees, and new opportunities for translating this knowledge ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2017
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