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Microbial Awakening
Published: November 1, 2012
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Life Sciences Salary Survey 2012
Published: November 1, 2012
Researcher salaries continue to buck the trend of the millennium’s first decade, remaining flat or even declining across most life science disciplines.
Exit Strategy
Published: November 1, 2012
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.
Pneu-mummy-a
Published: November 1, 2012
Comparing the protein profile of a 500-year-old Inca mummy to modern humans reveals an active lung infection prior to sacrifice.
Mummy's Little Secret
Published: November 1, 2012
Preserved remains from the Andes yield clues about infectious diseases.
The Salinella salve Mystery
Published: October 1, 2012
Salinella salve, an organism described as a single layer of cells, ciliated on both inner and outer surfaces and surrounding…
Home Cookin’
Published: October 1, 2012
Laboratory-raised populations of dung beetles reveal a mother's extragenetic influence on the physiques of her sons.
Gone Missing, circa 1892
Published: October 1, 2012
A unique organism sighted only once, more than a century ago, could shed light on the evolution of multicellularity—if it ever actually existed.
Tiago Branco: Neuron Whisperer
Published: October 1, 2012
Senior Research Fellow, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, Age: 34
The Science of Stowaways
Published: October 1, 2012
A dock dislodged by 2011's Japanese tsunami washes ashore in Oregon, posing an invasive species threat, but also serving as an unprecedented natural experiment in open-ocean dispersal.
Flu Fights Dirty
Published: September 1, 2012
Mimicking a host-cell histone protein offers flu a sneaky tactic to suppress immune response.
Finding Injury
Published: September 1, 2012
The brain’s phagocytes follow an ATP bread trail laid down by calcium waves to the site of damage.
Creating Sperm from Skin
Published: August 30, 2012
Researchers create early stage sperm cells from induced pluripotent stem cells, raising hopes that infertile men could be fathers.
Diabetes Researcher Repeated Figures
Published: August 28, 2012
The Office of Research integrity sanctions a Joslin Diabetes Center researcher for fudging data in retracted papers.
Telling Body Time
Published: August 28, 2012
A new method could make it easier to assess a person's circadian rhythms, paving the way for increased drug effectiveness.
Stem Cell Research Funding Upheld
Published: August 27, 2012
A US Appeal court rules that the National Institutes of Health is legally allowed to fund human embryonic stem cell research.
Mothers-In-Law and Menopause
Published: August 23, 2012
Competition for resources between mothers- and daughters-in-law having children at the same time could have been a driver for the emergence of menopause.
Experimental Lakes Face Closure
Published: August 22, 2012
A unique resource for studying environmental impacts on freshwater systems is threatened by federal funding cuts.
Father's Age Affects Mutation Rate
Published: August 22, 2012
The number of new gene mutations in children rises dramatically with the age of their father at conception.
Nanoparticles Harm Crops
Published: August 21, 2012
Manufactured nanomaterials, such as those found in cosmetics and fuel, affect soil productivity and food quality of soybean crops.
Paul Ryan's Science Report
Published: August 20, 2012
The presumed vice-presidential candidate gets a mixed review on science funding and attitudes.
Day of the Flying Ants
Published: August 16, 2012
A citizen science project invites people to report sightings of flying ants across the United Kingdom to track patterns of outbreaks.
Embryonic Stem Cells Survive Freezing
Published: August 16, 2012
Even after 18 years of frozen storage, human embryos can still produce viable stem cells for drug screening and biomedical research.
DNA Data Storage
Published: August 16, 2012
Researchers code a book into DNA, demonstrating the possibility of using the biological molecule for long-term data storage.
Bacteria Breed Multicellularity?
Published: August 15, 2012
A single-celled relative of animals forms colonies when exposed to a bacterial product, hinting at the possible origins of multicellularity.
Prayer Takes Precedence Over Science?
Published: August 14, 2012
A Bill of Rights amendment reaffirming the right to pray could have negative consequences for the teaching of evolution.
Playing Sides on Arctic Research
Published: August 13, 2012
A polar bear researcher is being investigated for opposing oil and gas industry research initiative in the Arctic, while supporting a similar proposal from NOAA.
Stressed Men Prefer Heavier Women
Published: August 9, 2012
Men subject to psychological stress rate heavier women as more attractive, and find a greater range of body sizes desirable.
Texting Wolf
Published: August 7, 2012
Swiss scientists create a collar for sheep that detects when they're stressed by wolves, and sends a text message to their shepherd.
Off-Label Drug Disclosure Inadequate
Published: August 7, 2012
Some 85 percent of researchers involved in promoting off-label drug use do not adequately disclose financial conflicts of interest in published articles.
Dog Drug Research Threatened
Published: August 2, 2012
The temporary closure of an Italian research dog breeder amid allegations of maltreatment could spell the end for the facility.
A Cloud for Bats
Published: August 2, 2012
A unique habitat seeks to bring awareness to a disease decimating populations of the flying mammals.
Anti-aging Pill Challenged
Published: July 31, 2012
Former biotech executive files lawsuit accusing the company of engaging in deceptive business practices.
Yeast's Wasp Winter Retreat
Published: July 30, 2012
Wasps harbor yeast in their guts all winter long, then spread the microbes among wineries and vineyards.
Testing Endurance
Published: July 26, 2012
Researchers follow 44 ultramarathon runners in a race across Europe to track the body's response to extreme physical challenge.
Termite Kamikazes
Published: July 26, 2012
Older termites build up backpacks of toxic material that they can unleash on their enemies by bursting their bodies.
Wired to Run—and Think
Published: July 26, 2012
Evolving the ability to run may also have made our ancestors smarter, suggesting that exercise can be healthy for the brain as well as the body.
Double Duplication
Published: July 24, 2012
Two whole genome duplications boosted the complexity of the ancestor of all vertebrates, but also introduced potential for disease.
Surprising Sperm Diversity
Published: July 23, 2012
The first genetic comparison of one man’s individual sperm cells uncovers unique genetic shuffling representative of a much bigger population.
Bio-engineered Jellyfish Swim
Published: July 22, 2012
Researchers create a swimming jellyfish mimic by reverse-engineering the creature's pumping action, paving the way for new methods of engineering replacement organs.
Treating Egg Allergies with Eggs
Published: July 19, 2012
Introducing tiny amounts of powdered egg into the diets of allergic children can cure the affliction.
Lab Rats Need Better Diets
Published: July 18, 2012
Rodents fed all-you-can-eat diets may be skewing experimental results.
Lowering Carbon with Algae
Published: July 18, 2012
Spawning algal blooms by fertilizing the Southern Ocean with iron could help sink atmospheric carbon to the deep ocean—and maybe slow the course of climate change.
Cancer-Enhancing Stress
Published: July 17, 2012
Depression in post-op breast cancer patients can cause tumors to establish in bone.
HIV Prevention Drug Approved
Published: July 17, 2012
The FDA approves the use of Truvada for those at high risk of HIV infection.
Next Generation: Robotic Eye
Published: July 13, 2012
Researchers create a robotic eye that mimics real muscle movement.
Playing With Ecology
Published: July 12, 2012
A card game based on interacting species aims to get children interested in real plants and animals.
Flies Evolve to Count
Published: July 12, 2012
Researchers breed fruit flies that, after 40 generations of conditioning, have acquired the ability to react to numbers.
Genome Digest
Published: July 11, 2012
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Sex Selection Not So Simple
Published: July 10, 2012
Revisiting a classic study could overturn the idea that male competition rules reproductive choice.
No Arsenic-Based Life
Published: July 9, 2012
Two new studies conclusively prove "arsenic-based" bacteria hailed by NASA researchers as a new form of life needs phosphate after all.
Source of Animal Magnetism Identified
Published: July 9, 2012
Decades after science discovered that animals can navigate using the earth’s magnetic field, researchers isolate the first vertebrate cells containing magnetic iron.
The Bug Zoo
Published: July 6, 2012
A Canadian menagerie lets visitors get up close and personal with insects to help make crawlies less creepy.
Meet the Bugs
Published: July 6, 2012
The Victoria Bug Zoo is extremely small. It consists of just one room partially divided by a wall that holds a row of tanks on one side and Canada’s largest ant farm on the other. In 1997, the Zoo's founder, Carol Maier, started the collection, which
High-Free Medical Marijuana
Published: July 5, 2012
Israeli researchers create a marijuana strain that maximizes pain relief while minimizing the high.
Diabetes Drug Grows Neurons
Published: July 5, 2012
A drug widely used to control glucose metabolism promotes neurogenesis, pointing to new directions for brain injury and disease therapeutics.
Mass Extinctions Set the Pace
Published: July 4, 2012
The rate of evolution is affected for millenia after mass extinctions.
Dogs May Guard Against Asthma
Published: July 3, 2012
Mice become immune to a virus associated with childhood asthma when exposed to dust from homes that have dogs.
Parkinson’s Researcher Fabricated Data
Published: June 29, 2012
Neuroscientist Mona Thiruchelvam agrees to retract two studies linking neurodegeneration to pesticides.
Climate Change Threatens Climate Lab
Published: June 28, 2012
Wildfires in Colorado, sparked by record temperatures, force the National Center for Atmospheric Research to close its doors for 2 days running.
Genome Digest
Published: June 28, 2012
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Dinos Not Necessarily Cold-Blooded
Published: June 27, 2012
The leading argument for dinosaurs being cold-blooded is overturned as a nearly identical bone structure is found in mammals.
Toying with RNA
Published: June 26, 2012
A new online game challenges users to design RNA sequences with the opportunity to have them brought to life.
Lonesome George Dies Alone
Published: June 25, 2012
The world’s last Pinta Island tortoise died this past weekend at the age of 100.
Size Does Matter
Published: June 22, 2012
Researchers have discovered how the brain broadly characterizes objects by size, revealing a fundamental insight into how we interact with the world.
Not-So-Informed Consent
Published: June 21, 2012
Growing databanks are invaluable to biomedical researchers, but patients are often unaware of what their information is used for.
Self-Harm for Self-Defense
Published: June 20, 2012
To protect themselves during malaria infections, mice can kill their own healthy red blood cells, cutting off the parasite’s primary resource.
Resveratrol May Not Extend Life
Published: June 20, 2012
A new meta-analysis finds that resveratrol, currently marketed as a life-extending health supplement, may have a negligible effect on lifespan in humans.
Defense Facility Still Too Risky
Published: June 18, 2012
A second risk assessment of a proposed bio-defense laboratory shows major improvement, but still has serious flaws, according to an independent review panel.
Brain Bank Defrost
Published: June 14, 2012
Freezer malfunction damages one third of the world’s largest collection of brains from autism patients.
GM Crops Offer Natural Pest Control
Published: June 13, 2012
Transgenic cotton plants that produce their own insecticide bolster local insect predator populations, which could serve as better long-term solutions to crop pests.
Questioning the HIV Cure
Published: June 12, 2012
Sensitive tests reveal the Berlin patient believed to be cured of HIV still carries HIV RNA and antibodies.
@Pharma Branching Out
Published: June 11, 2012
More than half of pharmaceutical companies on Twitter use more than one handle.
Fetal Genome in Mom's Blood
Published: June 7, 2012
Scientists have sequenced the genome of an 18.5 week-old fetus using blood and saliva samples taken from the parents.
Fewer Mutations in Tumor Mitochondria
Published: June 7, 2012
Contrary to existing dogma, colon cancer cell mitochondria carry fewer mutations than mitochondria of normal body cells.
BP Subpoenas Scientist Emails
Published: June 5, 2012
Researchers who studied the Deep Water Horizon disaster have handed over 3,000 internal documents and emails to BP as part of the lawsuit that seeks damages from the oil company.
Camel Pharmacies?
Published: June 4, 2012
Researchers create transgenic cells that may help camels produce milk full of therapeutic proteins.
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