Articles in the Category: Biology
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Math, Plants, Science & Entertainment, Space, Video on 08 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists are People Too

Scientists are People Too
The race is on to humanize scientists. Mad, messy-haired white men in white coats in a dark, cold laboratory are out. Long distance running, singer-photographer, daredevils are in. These are the new faces of science. mechanical engineer and an all-purpose daredevil, Nate Ball is also an accomplished...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster
A small bioremediation company in San Antonio is offering the use of its oil-eating microbes to help reduce the impact of the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The government is also looking for credible suggestions to sop up oil on facebook.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Genomics, Video on 05 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Craig Venter Gives Life to First Synthetic Cell

Craig Venter Gives Life to First Synthetic Cell
The CBC’s science correspondent Bob McDonald puts the world’s first synthetic cell into perspective.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 22nd, 2010 | 1 Comment

Rose Ellen’s Genetic Assist

Rose Ellen’s Genetic Assist
A cancer patient is helping doctors at the Mayo Clinic unlock a few genetic secrets. Rose Ellen Heley allowed oncologists to decode her DNA and map her genome. Mayo Clinic researchers have learned something about her bone marrow cancer in the process that could help others suffering from cancer. Dr....
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Video on 02 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Science Determines King Tut’s Killer

Science Determines King Tut’s Killer
For years, people thought the Egyptian king was murdered but new DNA evidence is pointing to a different killer. the 3,300-year-old pharaoh King Tutankhamun likely died from complications of a broken leg that was exacerbated by malaria, according to a two-year study of his mummy and family members. They...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments

The Love Hormone Field Test

The Love Hormone Field Test
It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no. Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Plants, Video on 02 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Scientists Invent Rice That Doesn’t Need Cooking

Scientists Invent Rice That Doesn’t Need Cooking
Agricultural scientists in India say they have developed a variety of rice that requires no cooking and can be eaten simply after being soaked in water.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011

Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs. Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Marine Science, Video, Weird Weather on 01 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Florida Freeze Kills Invasive Species

Florida Freeze Kills Invasive Species
Millions of tilapia, an invasive fish species, have been wiped out. It has put a temporary dent in commercial fishing, but now biologists say other fish will have a chance to flourish. The tilapia has made its home in Florida lakes for decades since being first brought in to control out of control vegetation....
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, SciClips on 01 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Make Room for the Mesopredators

Make Room for the Mesopredators
The top predators in every animal niche are disappearing. Development and other forces are pushing these animals toward the brink of extinction. New research shows that conservation efforts and a plan to return apex predators to the wild may be more cost-effective than trying to control the predators...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Endangered Species, Global Warming, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video, Weird Weather on 01 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Cold Snap Masks Global Warming for a Minute

Cold Snap Masks Global Warming for a Minute
Much of the country and for that matter the Northern Hemisphere has been locked in an icy weather pattern that sent records tumbling and even forced Florida produce growers to seal oranges and strawberries in ice to protect them from frigid temperatures. Some scientists are saying this is yet another...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Climate, Diseases, Endangered Species, Genetics, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 01 10th, 2010 | No Comments

The Growling Uncertainty of Science

The Growling Uncertainty of Science
One thing is for sure. Science doesn’t do certainty. No matter how close a researcher gets to complete certainty there is always room to know more. Therefore uncertainty is a scientific fact. And we need to get comfortable with it. From taxonomic tussles over classifying the giant panda to more...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Genetics, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Video on 01 4th, 2010 | No Comments

2 Cancer Codes Cracked

2 Cancer Codes Cracked
The International Cancer Genome Project is the largest genetic undertaking since the Human Genome Project. It is trying to sequence the DNA of 50 types of cancer over the next few years. Researchers decoded the genome for lung and skin cancer in mid December. CBC reports. Fun fact: Scientists discovered...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, SciClips, Video on 12 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Sea Turtle Flies to Miami

Sea Turtle Flies to Miami
An injured hawksbill sea turtle flew First Class from the Caribbean island of Curacao to Miami on Tuesday. Little Anita rode in her own seat, next to marine biologist Alina Szmant. The endangered turtle is now settling into her new home at the Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project’s “Turtle...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, SciClips, Video on 12 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Tree Kangaroos Fate Up in the Air

Tree Kangaroos Fate Up in the Air
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo Climate negotiations over how to limit carbon dioxide emissions are heating up in Copenhagen. But one other important area negotiators are addressing — how to sequester existing CO2. Climate sinks — like oceans, forests and permafrost...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Genetics, Geology, Politics and Science, SciClips, Video on 11 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Going Bananas Over Darwin

Going Bananas Over Darwin
Christian pastor Ray Comfort decided to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by writing his own introduction and handing out free copies of the book to college students across the country. Comfort is responsible for handing out over 100,000 copies of the...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Ecology, Endangered Species, Global Warming, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest
A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold. But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid. What can we...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud
Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Biology, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 7th, 2009 | No Comments

Nobel Prizes Crown Science Winners

Nobel Prizes Crown Science Winners
Every year (since 1901) the Nobel Foundation has been honoring the final wish of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. This year the three science prizes went to nine scientists who overcame a big biology problem, harnessed light and unraveled the mechanism at the heart of a cell. Nobel Prize for...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Computer Science, SciClips on 10 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Ant Security

Ant Security
When the ants go marching two by two, pay attention to what they are doing. Scientists are. And they are discovering clever ways to improve cyber security just by mimicking the behavior of ants. The foraging insects use something called swarm intelligence to efficiently locate and gather food. Computer...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biofuels, Biology, Diseases, Energy, Featured Articles, Genomics, Health and Medicine, New Species, SciClips on 09 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own

Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own
A Yeast Cell with Synthetic Genes, courtesy of Dr. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School Life is often stranger than fiction. But the direction that biology is heading, synthetic life could be stranger than science fiction. The emerging field of synthetic biology is moving closer and closer to creating...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biochemistry, Biology, Diseases, Genomics, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, New Species, Oceanography, SciClips on 09 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Discovering an Ocean of Medicine

Discovering an Ocean of Medicine
Amy Wright Collects Samples While Diving, courtesy of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University Cures to the most mundane and deadly illnesses have been found deep in the jungles, high in the mountains and hidden in the rainforests. But until recently not many scientists were...
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Diseases, Health and Medicine, SciClips on 09 14th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Life and Death of Cells

Life and Death of Cells
Apoptosis in Action Apoptosis is essentially cell suicide. It is the natural process by which damaged or unfit cells get expelled, making rooms for robust healthy cells. This field of biological study has been around for a long time. But scientists are just starting to unravel the highly complex processes...
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