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    [Entry posted at 10th September 2008 01:09 PM GMT]
    There are many ways to ward off a predator, but perhaps none so enthusiastic as the Giant honeybee's team "wave."

    New research, published this week in PLoS One, demonstrates that a communal motion called the shimmering effect, in which hundreds of bees successively flip their abdomens upwards in a rapid wave, protects a hive by startling wasps away.

    "People have known for a long time that the Asian species of honeybees do this... Click to continue




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    [Entry posted at 2nd September 2008 05:01 PM GMT]
    The NIH has turned the locks and barred the windows on several previously open access databases of genetic information in response to new research proving it's possible to identify a single individual's genetic profile out of a pool of DNA.

    Last week in PLoS Genetics, researchers from the University of California, Los Angles, and the Translational Genomics Institute in Phoenix published a new bioinformatics method for pinpointing an... Click to continue









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