Biologist

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Biologist

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

Bird playlists communicate intelligence to mates

Variety of song repertoire might be used to help female birds work out a male's strengths and weaknesses.Having a bigger playlist of birdsongs was initially thought to correlate to having more brain power. However, research by biologists at Duke University ... [Published Wired.co.uk - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Biologist, Mealworm, Duke University

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

California Institute of Technology

Caltech biologists show that microRNA146a protects stem cells during inflammation

Home » Syndicated Content » Caltech biologists show that microRNA-146a protects stem cells during inflammationWhen infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often jump into action by multiplying and differentiating into mature immune cells ... [Published BioPortfolio - 6 hours ago]

Entities: California Institute of Technology, Stem Cell, Inflammation, Biologist

First reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

New technique allows biologists to profile patterns of gene regulation in rare cell populations

07:30, Biology/Cell & MicrobiologyEpigenetic changes to chromosome structure influence whether or not certain genes are active. Credit: Dorling Kindersley RF/ThinkstockMapping all of the chemical, or epigenetic, changes to chromosomes that affect which ... [Published PhysOrg.com - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Biologist, Chromosome, Genome Institute of Singapore

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 7 reports

Photo: Eye to eye

A peregrine falcon challenges wildlife biologist Chris Nadareski as he approaches her chicks in their nest on the east tower of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. The chicks hatched three weeks ago on a girder over the Hu ... [Published Columbus Dispatch - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Peregrine Falcon, George Washington, Biologist

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

The Heritage Foundation

County supervisors get update on wetlands project

Z 2013-05-21T22:38:07Z By JOHN SKIPPER Mason City Globe Gazette8 hours ago • By JOHN SKIPPERMASON CITY — Cerro Gordo County supervisors held a public hearing Tuesday on plans for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to purchase land for its Union ... [Published Globe-Gazette - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Drainage, The Heritage Foundation, Biologist, Natural Resources

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 reports

How to photograph coyotes (Go with experts, bring a backpack)

_ As is so often the case with news photography, success in documenting the search for coyote pups was all about access. When I became curious about coyotes last fall, I called Bob Bluett, Wildlife Diversity Coordinator for the Illinois Department of ... [Published Chicago Tribune - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Chris Walker, Biologist

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Biologist claims he discovered world's oldest sugar maple tree

A local biologist is convinced that a tree near Peterborough is the oldest known living sugar maple in the world.Sun News ... [Published Sun News - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Acer saccharum, Biologist

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 reports

Birds cannot be Both Masterful Divers and Flyers

Why penguins swim instead of flying? It is a question that scientists have struggled to answer for a long period of time. Why the birds did not keep their ability to fly as their diving ability evolved?A new study has suggested that birds cannot be master ... [Published French Tribune - May 21 2013]

Entities: Cormorant, Robert Ricklefs, Thick-billed Murre

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 reports

Ohio project examines early births

March of Dimes project in 3 Ohio cities examines causes of premature birthsCOLUMBUS — The March of Dimes is spending $10 million in Ohio for collaborative research into the problem of babies being born prematurely.The project will draw on the expertise ... [Published Toledoblade.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Columbus (Ohio, United States), March of Dimes, Mathematician, Biologist

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Chasing the wild

Biologist and fishing detective Jeremy Wade returns to television with the series River Monsters.This season, the adventurer finds himself in places he’s never explored as he travels to the far reaches of the globe – from serpentine underwater caves to ... [Published New Indian Express - May 21 2013]

Entities: Adventurer, Animal Planet, Stingray

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 5 reports

Rare island fox rebounds on California island

The rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the northern Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday. The population of the fox dropped to an all-time low ... [Published Tuscaloosa News - May 21 2013]

Entities: Biologist, Subspecies, Chemical, DDT, National Park Service

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Duck duck goose annual North American head count has begun

Murray Gillespie, a waterfowl biologist with Enviorment Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Service and his summer student Michele Chupik survey duck populations on a wetland east of Calgary on May 11, 2013. (Chris Bolin for The Globe and ... ... [Published Birmingham Star - May 20 2013]

Entities: Canadian Wildlife Service, Biologist, Calgary

Quotes

"The first week is pretty critical as everything has to function for them to survive. After the first week to ten days, they are very hardy" Bean said

One baby swan in Manlius dies; one remains [Published Syracuse Online - 33 mins ago]

"West Nile Virus is here to stay,” said Douglass. ”We expect to see WNV activity again this year.”"

West Nile season around the corner [Published Turlock Journal - 1 hour ago]

"These changes may bring about novel and potentially unstable species interactions by causing warm-adapted species to seek out geographic regions and to experience seasonal periods that have historically been too cold for them until temperatures begin to rise" said lead author Anthony Dell, a former UCLA postdoctoral researcher now at Germany's University of Gottingen

UCLA life scientists present new insights on climate change and species interactions [Published Bio-Medicine - 1 hour ago]

The EU project is called "Novel nanotechnology-enabled system for endovascular in vivo near-infrared fluorescence molecular imaging and endovascular near-infrared targeted photodynamic therapy of atherosclerotic heart disease" . Colloquially, the project is referred to as CosmoPHOSnano...

Innovative medication to shatter blood clots with light [Published Noodls - 1 hour ago]

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One baby swan in Manlius dies; one remains [Published Syracuse Online - 33 mins ago]
Finding solitude along the still-wild Namekagon [Published MinnPost - 54 mins ago]
West Nile season around the corner [Published Turlock Journal - 1 hour ago]
Northern zone musky season opens May 25 [Published Reporter - 1 hour ago]
UCLA life scientists present new insights on cl... [Published Bio-Medicine - 1 hour ago]
Innovative medication to shatter blood clots wi... [Published Noodls - 1 hour ago]
Drought makes Borneo's trees flower at the same... [Published PhysOrg.com - 1 hour ago]
Abu Dhabi plays host to TEDxWWF conference [Published AME Info - 1 hour ago]
Getting to the bottom of the zombie ant phenomenon [Published PhysOrg.com - 2 hours ago]
Bird playlists communicate intelligence to mates [Published Wired.co.uk - 2 hours ago]
Keeping stem cells strong RNA molecule protects... [Published BioPortfolio - 2 hours ago]
'Natural' method of building comes to Sooke [Published Sooke News Mirror - 3 hours ago]
Notebooks go digital [Published RSC - 3 hours ago]
New technique allows biologists to profile patt... [Published PhysOrg.com - 3 hours ago]
Hunting is devastating N.M. bears [Published Albuquerque Journal - 3 hours ago]
Companies Rush to Mine the Ocean Floor for Gold [Published Care2 - 4 hours ago]
Four Newly-born Falcon Chicks Declared Healthy ... [Published French Tribune - 4 hours ago]
Catholics, Atheists, and the “Digital Areopagus” [Published Catholic World Report - 4 hours ago]
As one: how the astonishing power of swarms can... [Published Wired.co.uk - 4 hours ago]
Photo: Eye to eye [Published Columbus Dispatch - 4 hours ago]
Cause of Irish Potato Famine discovered [Published Irish Post - 4 hours ago]
"Friendly Viruses" Shield Us From Infection [Published MediLexicon - 5 hours ago]
Is A Steady State Economy Possible?: Gail Tverberg [Published Economy Watch - 5 hours ago]
They’re real and freaky: Check out these massiv... [Published Firstpost.com - 5 hours ago]
Caltech biologists show that microRNA146a prote... [Published BioPortfolio - 6 hours ago]
The Ball State Kerfuffle [EvolutionBlog] [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 6 hours ago]
TEDxWWF Captures The Minds And Hearts Of UAE Au... [Published Middle East Events - 6 hours ago]
Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1 #re... [Published nature.com blogs - 6 hours ago]
Scientists Identify Irish Potato Famine Culprit [Published CropBiotech Update - 6 hours ago]
Editorial: N.M. needs to get a line on cleaner ... [Published Albuquerque Journal - 6 hours ago]

Blogs

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Is A Steady State Economy Possible?: Gail Tverberg [Published Economy Watch - 5 hours ago] Is A Steady State Economy Possible?:About The AuthorCasualty actuary who writes about the impact of the limited supply of oil. Editor of "The Oil Drum"Gail Tverberg, EconomyWatch ContributorA Steady State Economy is one that seeks to balance growth with ...
The Ball State Kerfuffle [EvolutionBlog] [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - 6 hours ago] Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of physics at Ball State University, has come under fire for an honors course called, “Boundaries of Science.” The problem: the course appears to be little more than thinly veiled Christian evangelism. From The ...
Bridging the Science-to-Society Gap: Part 1 #re... [Published nature.com blogs - 6 hours ago] Originally posted on Soapbox Science - a community guest blog from nature.com The chasm between science and society is wide and deep, illustrated most recently by events in climate science1 and calls for increasingly politicized management of NSF-funding2. ...
Scientists Identify Irish Potato Famine Culprit [Published CropBiotech Update - 6 hours ago] An international team of scientists has identified the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine of the mid-ninetheenth century. The scientists said that a strain of Phytophthora infestans called HERB-1 triggered the disaster, and not the US-1 strain ...
A Virtual Weimar: Hyperinflation in a Video Gam... [Published St George West - 6 hours ago] By Peter C. Earle : As virtual fantasy worlds go, Blizzard Entertainment’s Diablo 3 is particularly foreboding. In this multiplayer online game played by millions, witch doctors, demon hunters, and other character types duke it out in a war between ...

Audio/Video

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DNA sixty years on [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 25 2013]
Part 2, neuron with lamin-b-expression mutation... [Published Berkeley Lab - YouTube - Mar 04 2013]
Part 1, wild-type neuron, epigenetic control of... [Published Berkeley Lab - YouTube - Mar 04 2013]
Lionfish threaten native fish in US coastal waters [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Feb 21 2013]
Love, octopus style [Published CNN.com - Video - Feb 15 2013]

Press Releases

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Elk Biologist Begins Work With Game Commission [Published PR Newswire: Environment - May 17 2013]
Pennsylvania Game Commission Seeks Input On Per... [Published PR Newswire - Apr 30 2013]
Members of Seneca Lake 12 Spend Earth Day Jaile... [Published PR Newswire: Environment - Apr 22 2013]
Dr. Sylvia Earle, 77, Famed Oceanographer and S... [Published PR.com Press Releases - Apr 03 2013]
Comments on The Nobel Prize Assembly's Response... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Mar 05 2013]