Biology News

Jul 26, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from Japan and the United States have shown that they can plant false memories in the brains of genetically modified mice. The team identified cells, shown in red, in the mouse hippocampus where memory traces are stored (Steve Ramirez / Xu Liu) Their study, published in the journal Science, may lead to new understanding of how and why humans form false memories. It also shows that many of the neurological traces of these memories are identical...

Jul 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Virologists led by Prof Jean-Michel Claverie and Dr Chantal Abergel from the Aix-Marseille Université’s Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory,...

Jul 24, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A large team of biologists from the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium and Germany, has reported the discovery of a new shrew species...

Jul 23, 2013 by News Staff

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) can use copying of signature whistles as a way of addressing or labeling animals on an individual basis, according...

Jul 17, 2013 by News Staff

Biologists led by Dr Don Arnold and Dr Richard Roberts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, have released an astonishing picture of...

Jul 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

U.S. entomologists have found a strange new insect on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Female Caurinus tlagu (Sikes DS / Stockbridge J) The...

Jul 12, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists at the Yale University School of Medicine have proposed an explanation for how Salmonella Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid fever, kills...

Jul 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Pelagic thresher sharks use tail-slaps as a hunting strategy, according to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE. Thresher shark at...

Jul 11, 2013 by News Staff

Biologist Dr Ruth Kiew of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia has described a beautiful new species of plant from the Peninsular Malaysia. Ridleyandra...

Jul 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study conducted by marine biologists Dr Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen and Dr Dan-Erik Nilsson from Lund University,...

Jul 8, 2013 by News Staff

Using DNA and RNA sequencing, an international team of researchers has revealed a surprising variety of life forms living in the subglacial Lake Vostok. Radar...

Jul 5, 2013 by Natali Anderson

New research, reported in the open-access journal PloS ONE, has yielded a surprising result: an Indonesian species of parrot known as Goffin’s Cockatoo,...

Jul 3, 2013 by News Staff

A genetic analysis of the Vietnamese white toothed shrew fauna, reported in the open access journal ZooKeys, has revealed a new species in the genus Crocidura,...

Jul 2, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Marine biologists from Taiwan and New Zealand have identified four new species of deep-sea fish in the anglerfish genus Chaunax. The Yellowspot frogmouth,...

Jun 29, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Biologists have described three new fungi species in the genus Gymnopus from New Zealand. Gymnopus ceraceicola (Jerry Cooper) The newly discovered species,...

Jun 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Japanese biologists have described a new species of spoon worm from the sandy tidal flat Hachi-no-higata of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Spoon worm Arhynchite...

Jun 27, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to biologists led by Dr Bryan Fry from the University of Queensland, the oral flora of Komodo dragons does not differ from any other carnivore. A...

Jun 26, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered a new bird species in Phnom Penh, the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Cambodian Tailorbird...