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Petascale Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight into Genomic Evolution
Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers to understand genomic evolution...
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Read moreGlobal warming cycles threaten endangered primate species
This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Niño warming affected the abundance of four New World monkeys over decades. The...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew Park Protects Tigers, Elephants and Carbon
The Royal Government’s Council of Ministers recently declared the creation of the Seima Protection Forest, which covers more than 1,100 square miles along Cambodia’s eastern border with Vietnam. ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreStudy of Ancient Primate Counters "Darwinus" Discovery
Led by Stony Brook University paleontologist Erik R. Seiffert, Ph.D., the research supports the more commonly held theory on adapiform evolution and refutes a claim earlier in 2009 by scientists that ...
Earth Sciences | Read moreResearchers discover mechanism that helps humans see in bright and low light
The discovery could contribute to better understanding of human diseases that affect the retina, including age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans over 50. That&#...
Life Sciences | Read moreHyenas cooperate, problem-solve better than primates
Captive pairs of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) that needed to tug two ropes in unison to earn a food reward cooperated successfully and learned the maneuvers quickly with no training. Experienced h...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists cure color blindness in monkeys
Writing online Wednesday in the journal Nature, scientists cast a rosy light on the potential for gene therapy to treat adult vision disorders involving cone cells — the most important cells for visio...
Life Sciences | Read moreZoo volunteers help explain mysteries of the genome
As the University of Leicester approaches the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting (September 10), Leicester geneticists interested in a particular type of DNA are receiving some he...
Life Sciences | Read moreDiscovery of novel genes could unlock mystery of what makes us uniquely human
The prevailing wisdom in the field of molecular evolution was that new genes could only evolve from duplicated or rearranged versions of preexisting genes. It seemed highly unlikely that evolutionary ...
Life Sciences | Read moreMonkeys get a groove on, but only to monkey music
A new report by Charles Snowdon, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and musician David Teie of the University of Maryland shows that a monkey called the cotton-top tamar...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The techn...
Health and Medicine | Read morePainless 'microneedle' patch may take the sting out of shots
Lined with tiny "microneedles," these patches could make treatment of diabetes and a wide range of other diseases safer, more effective and less painful. Used as tiny hypodermic needles, the...
Medical Engineering | Read moreParkinson's disease: iron accumulation to the point of demise
Possible explanation for the necrosis of dopaminergic cells Neurons that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine are the cerebral cells that most commonly die-off in Parkinson's disease. Th...
Life Sciences | Read moreClimate Caused Biodiversity Booms and Busts in Ancient Plants and Mammals
"Today, the middle of Wyoming is a vast desert, and a few antelope and deer are all you see," said lead author Michael Woodburne, honorary curator of geology at the Museum of Northern Arizon...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSpecies barrier may protect macaques from chronic wasting disease
The results to date show that 14 cynomolgus macaques exposed orally or intracerebrally to CWD remain healthy and symptom free after more than six years of observation, though the direct relevance to p...
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