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Electrically charged insects perfect prey for spiders

August 9, 2013
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Spider webs take advantage of an electrical charge built up by flying insects to snare their prey suggests a researcher at University of California, Berkeley.Inspired by his four year old...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Eel fluorescent protein transforms clinical assay

July 12, 2013
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A Japanese freshwater eel called unagi possesses a fluorescent protein that could revolutionise a key clinical assay for bilirubin, a critical indicator of liver function, haemolysis and jaundice.A team from...
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Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Zoology
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Coral reef skeleton can survive even in acidic oceans

July 3, 2013
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For the first time, scientists have described the biological process of how corals create their skeletons to form massive and ecologically vital coral reefs in the world’s oceans.The team at...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Coral reefs could be saved by geoengineering

June 17, 2013
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At-risk tropical coral reefs could be bought time by limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world’s oceans in the future suggest Bristol University researchers. The scientists used computer...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Alligator’s smile provides tooth regeneration clues

June 12, 2013
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Scientists are studying alligators in order to potentially understand how to stimulate tooth regeneration in humans. The global researcher team led by Keck School of Medicine of the USC has...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Flight of the bumblebee

April 19, 2013
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A bumblebee is more stable when it is flying quickly, rather than hovering at slow speeds suggests research published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.Researchers in China used a mathematical...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Hopping back to the gene pool

April 3, 2013
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Scientists have revitalised the genome of an extinct Australian frog using sophisticated cloning technology.Using somatic nuclear transfer, the Lazarus Project team is closer than ever to bringing the Rheobatrachus silus...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Proteomics & Genomics, Zoology
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Sockeye salmon migrates magnetically

March 18, 2013
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The sockeye salmon uses a magnetic map to return to its spawning ground after navigating across thousands of miles of open ocean, according to 56 years of data analysed at...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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The surprising way a tadpole regrows its tail

February 11, 2013
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Scientists at the University of Manchester have discovered, to their surprise, that a tadpole’s ability to regrow its tail is dependent on a group of chemicals generally believed to be...
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Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Why blind mole rats don’t get cancer

December 19, 2012
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Biologists have determined why blind mole rats are immune to cancer. The mechanism differs from that discovered three years ago in the naked mole rat, another long-living, cancer-resistant rat species....
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Biological Sciences, Oncology, Zoology
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