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 Kbps | Biologists Produce Potential Malarial Vaccine from Algae Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (May 16, 2012) — Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement ... Algae Based Malaria Vaccine Advances In Testing |
 Plain Dealer | Biology: Mammary chronicles Nature.com The breast looms large in human culture and biology. The essential proteins and long-chain fatty acids in breast milk help to build babies' big brains, and the cornucopia of other components, such as virus-slaying macrophages and oligosaccharides that ... Florence Williams' 'Breasts' is humorous but deadly serious |
Dysart Unified School District biology, algebra evaluations Arizona Republic The Dysart Unified School District's textbook-adoption committee is evaluating electronic open-education resources being considered for high-school biology and algebra. Open-education resources can be modified and adapted to meet the needs of specific ... |
 CBC.ca | BC 'Frankenfish' report being investigated CBC.ca A biologist will inspect a lagoon in a Burnaby, BC, park Wednesday to see if the invasive snakehead — a so-called "Frankenfish" from Asia — has somehow found its way there. A video posted on YouTube, purported to have been taken at the Central Park ... A beast of a fish reported in Burnaby; biologists concerned Biologists sound warning after snakehead fish reported in suburban Vancouver pond Burnaby park officials probing nasty snakehead fish allegedly spotted at ... |
Wanna Learn Marine Biology? There's an App for That Discovery News The right combination of apps can turn a smart phone into a tool of science by putting biological field stations in the palms of millions of curious students, teachers, researchers and maybe even a few orangutans. |
Structural biology: How opioid drugs bind to receptors Nature.com The traditional model of OR signalling proposes that the binding of a ligand molecule (an opioid) to a receptor activates an associated G protein, which, in turn, triggers a biological response. Widely distributed in the brain and in the peripheral ... |
Biology of Genomes Presentations Highlight Burgeoning Single-Cell Sequencing ... GenomeWeb By Andrea Anderson Diverse strategies for sequencing single cells were front and center at this year's annual Biology of Genomes meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, with four researchers presenting information on methods to sequence ... |
 New York Times (blog) | Hatched and Wild Salmon: A Bad Mix? New York Times (blog) But a collection of 23 studies published this week in a special issue of the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes presents significant evidence of ecological problems posed by the hatched variety. Every year, about five billion salmon are released ... Studies point to trouble when hatchery and wild salmon mix |
 New York Times (blog) | 'Hunger Games' Science: Investigating Genetically Engineered Organisms New York Times (blog) In this lesson, students discuss the definition of genetically modified organisms, learn about the risks and benefits of research on GMO's, explore the growing do-it-yourself biology movement, and develop proposals seeking to either restrict or permit ... |
 National Science Foundation | Sea Turtle Conservation Boosted by New Research Huffington Post (blog) The study, published in The Journal of Experimental Biology, found that young loggerhead sea turtles use a "smart swimming" strategy to navigate the ocean waters as tiny hatchlings. By swimming only when they are in danger, and drifting at all other ... Scientists Answer Unresolved Questions About Loggerhead Turtle Migrations “Smart swimming,” magnetism said to help baby turtles through epic journey Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings swim, drift with currents around North ... |