News: Geckos invade Philly museum Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 29th May 2009 01:59 PM GMT] Geckos get around. They're among the most diverse and widely distributed lizards, populating every continent except Antarctica and inhabiting everything from tropical beaches and humid rainforests to chilly mountain ranges and arid deserts. This ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Is tenure worth saving? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 28th May 2009 07:02 PM GMT] The economy is depressed, money is tight, and universities are feeling the pinch. One radical proposal for trimming budgets is to eliminate tenure-track positions, shifting faculty to part-time and full-time non-tenure-track positions. The move away ... Click to continue View comments (11) | Comment on this news story News: Immunity can be lymph-less Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 27th May 2009 01:05 AM GMT] Researchers have overturned the long-standing notion that lymph nodes are always necessary for launching the mammalian immune response. Fluorescently-labeled mouse liver Image: Burkhard Becher According to a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: To wake or not to wake? Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 21st May 2009 07:00 PM GMT] New evidence provides clues about the role of a key sleep-related brain activity pattern in the brain: this waveform may help keep the mind asleep through nonthreatening disturbances, rather than wake it up as previous studies have suggested, a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Tumors spur depression Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 18th May 2009 10:00 PM GMT] Tumors can cause classic symptoms of depression in rats, according to a new study published online in PNAS this week. Image: ... Click to continue View comments (7) | Comment on this news story News: Q&A: Frog saver Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 15th May 2009 02:57 PM GMT] A fungal epidemic blamed for the extinction of dozens of amphibian species has drawn the attention of researchers and conservationist alike. Microbial ecologist Reid Harris and his ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: Nonslip role for petal cells Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 14th May 2009 05:00 PM GMT] Conical cells on the petals of most flowering plants appear to play a much more grounding role for pollinating bees than scientists have previously assumed. Bee landing on snapdragonImage: Don Manning and Beverley GloverUniversity of ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Blood grows when it flows Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 13th May 2009 06:00 PM GMT] The physical forces exerted by a heart beat and the blood flow it produces trigger the formation of new blood cells, according to two studies published today (May 13) in Nature and Cell. Cluster of blood cells developing afterexposure to shear ... Click to continue View comments (3) | Comment on this news story News: New protein offers inside view Posted by Jef Akst [Entry posted at 7th May 2009 07:00 PM GMT] New labeling proteins that fluoresce in the infrared spectrum allow scientists to see deep inside the body of living mammals without lifting a scalpel, according to a study published in Science tomorrow (May 8). Image: Xiaokun Shu, UCSD ... Click to continue View comments (2) | Comment on this news story

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