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Animals: are multicellular organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and grow from a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.
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AUG 04, 2016Plants & Animals
Pinky the flamingo from the Bush Gardens theme park in Tampa, Florida met a rather heart-breaking end this week after a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Zika is inching its way into US territory. The past two weeks marked the first instance of local Zika transmission in th ...AUG 03, 2016Microbiology
The Olympic Games are underway in Rio, and Guanabara Bay is host to the sailing events. What’s lurking in those wa ...Written By: Kerry EvansAUG 03, 2016Cancer
Some people who work the graveyard shift may be compensated more in pay, but scientific evidence suggest passing up on t ...AUG 03, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to understand the role of so-called junk DNA. Made up of long stretches of non-coding ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 03, 2016Plants & Animals
Although you and I are born with a specific gender and have to stick with it for the rest of our lives, some animal spec ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 02, 2016Plants & Animals
Turtles have shells that they can hide inside of when they feel like they’re in danger or when they are feeling an ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 02, 2016Microbiology
A new report in the Journal of Fish Diseases has raised questions about the husbandry of zebrafish in laboratories every ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 02, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
A new sequencing technique has demonstrated that variations in RNA processing can reveal details about how development i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 02, 2016Immunology
LA JOLLA, CA – August 2, 2016 – A new study, led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), rev ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)AUG 01, 2016Plants & Animals
Australia Zoo’s rescue team came across something incredible when they were out doing their jobs. What originally ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 01, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
The FaceBase Consortium was established in 2009 to create a publicly available database - facebase.org - to study how fa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 01, 2016Neuroscience
When brain tissue is damaged by injury or disease, it’s irreplaceable. Unlike organ transplants or bone and skin g ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUL 31, 2016Plants & Animals
One of the things that scares almost anyone about the ocean is the presence of sharks. Despite the fact that shark attac ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 30, 2016Videos
Sharks are vital to maintaining the marine ecosystem. Yet, many people are afraid of them and hold a lot of misconceptio ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetJUL 30, 2016Plants & Animals
Cats are among some of the most popular house pets in the world, right beside dogs, but many of them are very much outdo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 30, 2016Earth & The Environment
“Ecosystems don’t collapse, they shift from one steady state to another, and that’s simply what happen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 29, 2016Plants & Animals
If you have a chance to stroll past the New York Botanical Garden this week in the Bronx, New York, then you might end u ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 28, 2016Plants & Animals
New research into the science of cloning may have debunked the common myth that clones age significantly faster than nat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 28, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
It’s rare that a drug can be FDA-approved to treat a condition without a known mechanism behind the drug’s a ...JUL 27, 2016Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – July 27, 2016 – In addition to its more obvious ills, type 2 diabetes is a condition closely a ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)JUL 27, 2016Plants & Animals
In June of 2014, a strange beaked whale-like carcass washed up on the shore of Alaska’s Bering Sea, just out of th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 27, 2016Microbiology
Researchers have unveiled details about the last universal common ancestor to all life on Earth, with the acronym LUCA. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 27, 2016Neuroscience
There are many reasons to own a dog, not the least of which is the companionship they offer. Dogs are good company and o ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 04, 2016
Plants & Animals
Pinky the flamingo from the Bush Gardens theme park in Tampa, Florida met a rather heart-breaking end this week after a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Zika is inching its way into US territory. The past two weeks marked the first instance of local Zika transmission in th
...
AUG 03, 2016
Microbiology
The Olympic Games are underway in Rio, and Guanabara Bay is host to the sailing events. What’s lurking in those wa
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 03, 2016
Cancer
Some people who work the graveyard shift may be compensated more in pay, but scientific evidence suggest passing up on t
...
AUG 03, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have long sought to understand the role of so-called junk DNA. Made up of long stretches of non-coding
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 03, 2016
Plants & Animals
Although you and I are born with a specific gender and have to stick with it for the rest of our lives, some animal spec
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 02, 2016
Plants & Animals
Turtles have shells that they can hide inside of when they feel like they’re in danger or when they are feeling an
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 02, 2016
Microbiology
A new report in the Journal of Fish Diseases has raised questions about the husbandry of zebrafish in laboratories every
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 02, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new sequencing technique has demonstrated that variations in RNA processing can reveal details about how development i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 02, 2016
Immunology
LA JOLLA, CA – August 2, 2016 – A new study, led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), rev
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
AUG 01, 2016
Plants & Animals
Australia Zoo’s rescue team came across something incredible when they were out doing their jobs. What originally
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 01, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The FaceBase Consortium was established in 2009 to create a publicly available database - facebase.org - to study how fa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 01, 2016
Neuroscience
When brain tissue is damaged by injury or disease, it’s irreplaceable. Unlike organ transplants or bone and skin g
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 31, 2016
Plants & Animals
One of the things that scares almost anyone about the ocean is the presence of sharks. Despite the fact that shark attac
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 30, 2016
Videos
Sharks are vital to maintaining the marine ecosystem. Yet, many people are afraid of them and hold a lot of misconceptio
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
JUL 30, 2016
Plants & Animals
Cats are among some of the most popular house pets in the world, right beside dogs, but many of them are very much outdo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 30, 2016
Earth & The Environment
“Ecosystems don’t collapse, they shift from one steady state to another, and that’s simply what happen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
If you have a chance to stroll past the New York Botanical Garden this week in the Bronx, New York, then you might end u
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 28, 2016
Plants & Animals
New research into the science of cloning may have debunked the common myth that clones age significantly faster than nat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 28, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
It’s rare that a drug can be FDA-approved to treat a condition without a known mechanism behind the drug’s a
...
JUL 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
JUPITER, FL – July 27, 2016 – In addition to its more obvious ills, type 2 diabetes is a condition closely a
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
JUL 27, 2016
Plants & Animals
In June of 2014, a strange beaked whale-like carcass washed up on the shore of Alaska’s Bering Sea, just out of th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 27, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers have unveiled details about the last universal common ancestor to all life on Earth, with the acronym LUCA.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 27, 2016
Neuroscience
There are many reasons to own a dog, not the least of which is the companionship they offer. Dogs are good company and o
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim