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If bonobo Kanzi can point as humans do, what other similarities can rearing reveal?
You may have more in common with Kanzi, Panbanisha and Nyota, three language-competent bonobos living at Great Ape Trust, than you thought. And those similarities, right at your fingertip, might one day tell scientists more about the effect of culture on neurological disorders that limit human expression. A recently published pointing study supports the assertion that the success of language studies with bonobos is tied to rearing.
ScienceDaily: Biology News, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:26 GMT

Scientists solve puzzle of chickens that are half male and half female
A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries -- why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on the other -- has been solved by researchers. The research, which involved studying rare naturally occurring chickens with white (male) plumage on one side and brown (female) plumage on the other, sheds new light on the sexual development of birds.
ScienceDaily: Biology News, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:26 GMT

Movement disorder symptoms are lessened by an antibiotic: Treating worms with ampicillin helps restore normal movement
Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to scientists.
ScienceDaily: Biology News, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:26 GMT

Researchers characterize stem cell function
(Northwestern University) Northwestern University researchers are the first to fully characterize a special type of stem cell, endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) that exist in circulating blood, to see if they can behave as endothelial cells in the body when cultured on a bioengineered surface.
EurekAlert! - Biology, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:26 GMT

Yellow fever strikes monkey populations in South America
(Wildlife Conservation Society) A group of Argentine scientists, including health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society, have announced that yellow fever is the culprit in a 2007-2008 die-off of howler monkeys in northeastern Argentina, a finding that underscores the importance of paying attention to the health of wildlife and how the health of people and wild nature are so closely linked.
EurekAlert! - Biology, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:26 GMT

Proposed mission would return sample from asteroid 'time capsule'
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born, and perhaps, shed light on how life began. It also might hit us someday.
EurekAlert! - Biology, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:26 GMT

Why surprises temporarily blind us

Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention would be involuntarily snatched away from the story to the blaring sound.

Biology News Net, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:27 GMT

More maize ethanol may boost greenhouse gas emissions

In the March issue of BioScience, researchers present a sophisticated new analysis of the effects of boosting use of maize-derived ethanol on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, conducted by Thomas W. Hertel of Purdue University and five co-authors, focuses on how mandated increases in production of the biofuel in the United States will trigger land-use changes domestically and elsewhere. In response to the increased demand for maize, farmers convert additional land to crops, and this conversion can boost carbon dioxide emissions.

Biology News Net, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:27 GMT

To Arctic animals, time of day really doesn't matter

In the far northern reaches of the Arctic, day versus night often doesn't mean a whole lot. During parts of the year, the sun does not set; at other times, it's just the opposite. A new study reported online on March 11th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that Arctic reindeer have come up with a solution to living under those extreme conditions: They've abandoned use of the internal clock that drives the daily biological rhythms in other organisms.

Biology News Net, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:27 GMT

Understanding of how mosquitoes find a host
The potentially deadly yellow-fever-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito detects the specific chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal.
Scientist Live RSS Feed, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:27 GMT

Lifestyle and exposures mirrored in blood gene expression
A study by Norwegian and French researchers hopes to provide new understanding of how blood cells adjust gene expression in response to various clinical, biochemical and pathological conditions.
Scientist Live RSS Feed, Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:27 GMT

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