items tagged with Biology
The PS3 can see inside you
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2007-04-09 18:38:43
The PlayStation 3 has a heart of Cell/B E processors. Medical scientists at the Mayo Clinic are now using this processor to create 3D images of patient's hearts, and other internals.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Consoles
2007-04-09 18:38:43
The PlayStation 3 has a heart of Cell/B E processors. Medical scientists at the Mayo Clinic are now using this processor to create 3D images of patient's hearts, and other internals.
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South Korean wolf cloning team under investigation
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-04-09 06:45:02
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-04-09 06:45:02
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean scientists, disgraced for massive fraud in stem cell studies, are being investigated for possibly manipulating data in a paper on producing the world's first cloned wolves, officials said on Monday.
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Don't do a Bush on stem cells, urge MPs, scientists, doctors
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-04-09 06:23:54
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: The Register
2007-04-09 06:23:54
MPs have warned that the UK government's proposed ban on hybrid embryos could damage UK science, and charged that it will restrict development of life-saving stem cell treatments.
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The Lek Paradox: Why we’re not all attractive!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-29 21:48:53
The Lek Paradox states that—given the chance—females will choose particularly attractive traits when selecting their mates in men. Over time, this repetition “should” remove those particular genetic traits from being apparent during the mating process. In essence, making everyone look the same.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-29 21:48:53
The Lek Paradox states that—given the chance—females will choose particularly attractive traits when selecting their mates in men. Over time, this repetition “should” remove those particular genetic traits from being apparent during the mating process. In essence, making everyone look the same.
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PlayStation 3 storms Folding@Home leaderboard
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-03-25 22:23:02
The addition of a Folding@Home client to the latest PlayStation 3 firmware has delivered a major boost to the distributed computing project.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2007-03-25 22:23:02
The addition of a Folding@Home client to the latest PlayStation 3 firmware has delivered a major boost to the distributed computing project.
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Human gene 'cures' colour-blind mice
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-25 19:38:22
Mice normally see a limited range of colours - similar to the palette available to people with red-green colour blindness - but researchers have found that inserting a relevant human gene gives them much broader colour vision.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-25 19:38:22
Mice normally see a limited range of colours - similar to the palette available to people with red-green colour blindness - but researchers have found that inserting a relevant human gene gives them much broader colour vision.
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Is that chimp angry? Facial cues crucial
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-25 03:45:17
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-03-25 03:45:17
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The arch of an eyebrow or the curve of a lip tells chimps a lot about each other, a finding that may give scientists new understanding about the evolution of human communication, researchers reported on Friday.
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Very rare Long-whiskered Owlet seen in Peru
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-23 17:02:07
The Long-whiskered Owlet is a very rare species of tiny owl. Discovered in 1976, it has not been seen in the wild until it appeared suddenly in February 2007 to researchers working in the Area de Conservación Privada de Abra Patricia in the northern jungle of Peru.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-23 17:02:07
The Long-whiskered Owlet is a very rare species of tiny owl. Discovered in 1976, it has not been seen in the wild until it appeared suddenly in February 2007 to researchers working in the Area de Conservación Privada de Abra Patricia in the northern jungle of Peru.
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First burrowing dinosaur fossils discovered
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-21 11:24:19
U.S. and Japanese palaeontologists have found the first fossil evidence of dinosaurs living in underground burrows and caring for their young.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-21 11:24:19
U.S. and Japanese palaeontologists have found the first fossil evidence of dinosaurs living in underground burrows and caring for their young.
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Live longer: eat better and less!
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-03-15 10:45:46
It has been common knowledge that animals live longer when their diet is low in calories but still complete in needed nutrients. However, only recently has evidence shown that humans also abide by the same saying: live longer, eat better and less.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Health
2007-03-15 10:45:46
It has been common knowledge that animals live longer when their diet is low in calories but still complete in needed nutrients. However, only recently has evidence shown that humans also abide by the same saying: live longer, eat better and less.
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Six million new genes discovered by scientific yacht team
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2007-03-14 14:40:38
American biologist and genome pioneer J. Craig Venter and his team have journeyed two years and several thousands of kilometers in order to collect bacteria, viruses, and proteins that may be helpful to humankind.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Climate
2007-03-14 14:40:38
American biologist and genome pioneer J. Craig Venter and his team have journeyed two years and several thousands of kilometers in order to collect bacteria, viruses, and proteins that may be helpful to humankind.
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Godfather cowbirds make birds “an offer they can’t refuse”
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-14 10:01:17
U.S. researchers have discovered gangster-like behavior in cowbirds.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-14 10:01:17
U.S. researchers have discovered gangster-like behavior in cowbirds.
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Make love AND war: Human ancestor Australopithecus used shorter legs for both
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-12 22:33:02
University of Utah researcher contends that males of the genus Australopithecus, our immediate ancestors, had short legs to maintain better balance when fighting over women.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-12 22:33:02
University of Utah researcher contends that males of the genus Australopithecus, our immediate ancestors, had short legs to maintain better balance when fighting over women.
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Lice is nice, at least when studying human evolution
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-12 12:27:34
Florida researchers discover that lice first jumped from gorillas to humans about 3.3 million years ago.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-12 12:27:34
Florida researchers discover that lice first jumped from gorillas to humans about 3.3 million years ago.
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Morals: what’s right and wrong?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-08 17:32:40
A psychologist has been pondering morality. He concludes that humans are born able to tell right from wrong and whether you are religious or not doesn’t make much difference.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-08 17:32:40
A psychologist has been pondering morality. He concludes that humans are born able to tell right from wrong and whether you are religious or not doesn’t make much difference.
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Robot salamander casts light on swim-walk transition
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-08 15:35:01
A robot salamander created at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology supports its developers' theory of how animals made the transition from swimming to walking.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-08 15:35:01
A robot salamander created at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology supports its developers' theory of how animals made the transition from swimming to walking.
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Dinosaur horns its way into history
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-04 07:37:39
A new 78 million year-old horned dinosaur weighing as much as a pickup truck has been discovered in Canada by a scientist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-03-04 07:37:39
A new 78 million year-old horned dinosaur weighing as much as a pickup truck has been discovered in Canada by a scientist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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Clovis people no longer called first humans in Americas
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-02-23 15:20:49
According to a recent U.S. scientific study, and backed up by growing archaeological evidence, the Clovis people were not the first humans to call America their home.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-02-23 15:20:49
According to a recent U.S. scientific study, and backed up by growing archaeological evidence, the Clovis people were not the first humans to call America their home.
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Success: Lab-grown teeth successfully transplanted to mice
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-02-19 06:42:54
A breakthrough by Japanese researchers in growing teeth in a lab dish and successfully transplanting them into mice points way to an organ regeneration future and better ways to restore health and grant longer lives to humans.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2007-02-19 06:42:54
A breakthrough by Japanese researchers in growing teeth in a lab dish and successfully transplanting them into mice points way to an organ regeneration future and better ways to restore health and grant longer lives to humans.
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Japanese scientists grow teeth from single cells
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-19 03:32:28
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese researchers said on Sunday they had grown normal-looking teeth from single cells in lab dishes, and transplanted them into mice.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: World Watch
Category: Reuters
2007-02-19 03:32:28
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese researchers said on Sunday they had grown normal-looking teeth from single cells in lab dishes, and transplanted them into mice.
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