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Species
Species is a basic taxonomy unit in biology used for defining a group of organisms that share common genetic heritage and are able to interbreed.
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APR 20, 2017Earth & The Environment
As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted meth ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 19, 2017Cancer
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins that keep our cells alive and well. Unfortunately, these molecules are a ...APR 18, 2017Plants & Animals
There exists a creature at the bottom of lagoons known as a shipworm, and it’s so terrifying to look at that most ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 18, 2017Cancer
Chemotherapy is intended to be an aggressive attack on cancer, but all too often, the body also sustains major injuries ...APR 16, 2017Microbiology
"While lice are highly maligned, they provide a wealth of scientific information," said Dr. Bret BoydWritten By: Carmen LeitchAPR 16, 2017Plants & Animals
If you were to scavenge the world to see just how many different kinds of trees there were, you would find so many that ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 15, 2017Plants & Animals
While cave-dwelling fish might be somewhat of a regularity in certain parts of the world, you used to be able to count E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 12, 2017Earth & The Environment
Deep-sea mining. Sounds like an extreme sport, doesn’t it? And it just might be the next extreme mineral extractio ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 12, 2017Plants & Animals
While new animal species continue to be discovered each and every day, perhaps one of the most interesting discoveries a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 11, 2017Plants & Animals
What was the first animal on Earth before all of these complex life forms came into existence? Many would be quick to te ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 11, 2017Earth & The Environment
Scientists and reef lovers alike are in alarm over the recent news that has come from the aerial surveys conducted by th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 09, 2017Microbiology
Acne is a common skin problem and the causes are not understood, but researchers are gaining insight into how bacteria i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 08, 2017Microbiology
When bacteria live in communities, they begin to exhibit interesting behavioral patternsWritten By: Carmen LeitchAPR 08, 2017Plants & Animals
It turns out that mandrills, a type of Old World monkey, behave similarly to humans in that they try to avoid sick frien ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 07, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Stem cells have incredible potential; in the pluripotent state, they are able to develop into any type of cell in the bo ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 06, 2017Microbiology
Breast milk is known to supply infants with important nutrition and immunity; new work indicates it also supports the he ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 06, 2017Plants & Animals
While investigating a shipwreck off of the coast of the Florida Keys, which is now considered an artificial reef, scient ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 06, 2017Neuroscience
Does size matter? For the brain, it does. Animals that are far bigger than humans, such as gorillas, who can grow to be ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 05, 2017Earth & The Environment
UFZ researchers Prof. Andreas Huth and Dr. Rico Fischer led a new study in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for E ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 05, 2017Plants & Animals
One of the types of food that dolphins are quite keen of are octopuses. For dolphins, they’re both tasty and bite- ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 04, 2017Plants & Animals
Close your eyes and imagine a world where fish just walk themselves right out of the water and start living on land beca ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 03, 2017Plants & Animals
The highly controversial drive hunting of dolphins that occurs in Taiji, Japan annually is raising some issues for a sma ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 02, 2017Videos
Fava beans can trigger a bad reaction in some people, but it has nothing to do with allergies. Instead a compound in the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 02, 2017Microbiology
H7N9 is a strain of flu associated with birds around the year 2000, and was not observed in other species until 2013, wh ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
APR 20, 2017
Earth & The Environment
As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted meth
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 19, 2017
Cancer
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins that keep our cells alive and well. Unfortunately, these molecules are a
...
APR 18, 2017
Plants & Animals
There exists a creature at the bottom of lagoons known as a shipworm, and it’s so terrifying to look at that most
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 18, 2017
Cancer
Chemotherapy is intended to be an aggressive attack on cancer, but all too often, the body also sustains major injuries
...
APR 16, 2017
Microbiology
"While lice are highly maligned, they provide a wealth of scientific information," said Dr. Bret Boyd
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 16, 2017
Plants & Animals
If you were to scavenge the world to see just how many different kinds of trees there were, you would find so many that
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
While cave-dwelling fish might be somewhat of a regularity in certain parts of the world, you used to be able to count E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 12, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Deep-sea mining. Sounds like an extreme sport, doesn’t it? And it just might be the next extreme mineral extractio
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 12, 2017
Plants & Animals
While new animal species continue to be discovered each and every day, perhaps one of the most interesting discoveries a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 11, 2017
Plants & Animals
What was the first animal on Earth before all of these complex life forms came into existence? Many would be quick to te
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 11, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Scientists and reef lovers alike are in alarm over the recent news that has come from the aerial surveys conducted by th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 09, 2017
Microbiology
Acne is a common skin problem and the causes are not understood, but researchers are gaining insight into how bacteria i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 08, 2017
Microbiology
When bacteria live in communities, they begin to exhibit interesting behavioral patterns
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
It turns out that mandrills, a type of Old World monkey, behave similarly to humans in that they try to avoid sick frien
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 07, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Stem cells have incredible potential; in the pluripotent state, they are able to develop into any type of cell in the bo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 06, 2017
Microbiology
Breast milk is known to supply infants with important nutrition and immunity; new work indicates it also supports the he
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 06, 2017
Plants & Animals
While investigating a shipwreck off of the coast of the Florida Keys, which is now considered an artificial reef, scient
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 06, 2017
Neuroscience
Does size matter? For the brain, it does. Animals that are far bigger than humans, such as gorillas, who can grow to be
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 05, 2017
Earth & The Environment
UFZ researchers Prof. Andreas Huth and Dr. Rico Fischer led a new study in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for E
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
One of the types of food that dolphins are quite keen of are octopuses. For dolphins, they’re both tasty and bite-
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
Close your eyes and imagine a world where fish just walk themselves right out of the water and start living on land beca
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 03, 2017
Plants & Animals
The highly controversial drive hunting of dolphins that occurs in Taiji, Japan annually is raising some issues for a sma
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 02, 2017
Videos
Fava beans can trigger a bad reaction in some people, but it has nothing to do with allergies. Instead a compound in the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 02, 2017
Microbiology
H7N9 is a strain of flu associated with birds around the year 2000, and was not observed in other species until 2013, wh
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch