Biology News

Mar 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Shark biologists have announced the discovery of two sharks never seen before in Australian waters. Mandarin dogfish, Cirrhigaleus barbifer (OpenCage.info / CC BY-SA 2.5) “The rare sharks were caught off Rottnest Island two years ago at a depth of 1410 feet (430 m) by local recreational fisherman Steve Downs,” explained Dr Ryan Kempster, biologist with the University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute. Mr Downs gave the sharks to a...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research led by Dr Kimberley Seed from the Tufts University School of Medicine provides the first evidence that bacteriophages – viruses that...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the Universidad de Granada and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain,...

Feb 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from the University of Bergen and the University of Vienna have studied a simple, brainless sea anemone to learn more about the evolutionary...

Feb 21, 2013 by News Staff

An ongoing study led by two San Francisco Bay Area scientists, Dr Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr Richard Ross of the California...

Feb 20, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists have discovered that a protein called Jagged-1 stimulates stem cells to differentiate into bone-producing cells. Structure of the Jagged...

Feb 19, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of entomologists from Brazil and the United States has described a new species of tiny insect. The newly discovered forcepfly Austromerope...

Feb 18, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A crew of marine biologists from Scotland and New Zealand, who just returned from a deep-ocean expedition to one of the deepest places on Earth –...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study in mice led by Prof Bo Li of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory examines how fear responses are learned, controlled, and memorized. The findings...

Feb 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look for the first time at the structure and...

Feb 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new research published in the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany tries to explain how plants sense gravity, and how they direct or signal...

Feb 14, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A paper published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS ONE describes a new species of scops owl, called the Rinjani Scops Owl, from the island of...

Feb 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Microbiologists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that different...

Feb 7, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Neurobiologists from the United States and Japan have identified the location and genetic characteristics of taste stem cells on the tongue. An image showing...

Feb 6, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a research published in the journal Nature Communications, the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus) relies on stereo sniffing to locate its prey. The...

Feb 4, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Humans alone were responsible for the demise of the thylacine, an extinct predator also known as the Tasmanian tiger, according to a new study led by University...

Feb 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists from Japan has found a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells. In a previous study, Dr Okabe’s...

Feb 1, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of biologists at University of Alberta, Canada, has discovered that zebrafish’s stem cells can selectively regenerate damaged photoreceptor...

Jan 31, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study conducted by ichthyologists Dr Ralf Britz of the Natural History Museum and Dr David Johnson of the Smithsonian National Museum...

Jan 29, 2013 by Natali Anderson

It has not been clear how salt halts the growth of the plant-root system, until now. According to an international study published in the journal Plant...