Animals Experiment 1 The aim of experiment 1 was to describe differences in the ontogeny of play between domesticated chickens and ancestral Red Junglefowl. The Red Junglefowl (RJF) chicks (n=40) u… [+8737 chars]
When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. This condition, called bucked shin, occurs in about 70% of the anima… [+3249 chars]
<ul><li>Researchers at IRB Barcelona identify critical spots on the genome where gene editing could cause an unwanted response, and they provide recommendations for safer approaches.</li><li>The resu… [+3761 chars]
In the dark of Sunday night and Monday morning (Aug. 7 and 8), a surprise solar storm slammed into Earth, showering our planet in a rapid stream of charged particles from the sun . The resulting c… [+2512 chars]
Writing in an August 9 article in the journal Cell Reports, the scientists make the case that their computer models are the first to combine data sets from different types of lab experiments, providi… [+1621 chars]
ByConsorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red MPAugust 9, 2022 A person who has reached 100 years old is referred to as a centenarian. Centenarians offspring have genetic expression patterns… [+4223 chars]
Divergence and diversity across elevations and transects To study adaptation to altitude in H. erato and H. melpomene, we used whole-genome data from 518 re-sequenced individuals, 444 of which were … [+39422 chars]
A recent study in Nature Communications demonstrates synchronous three-dimensional imaging of floe sizes and waves from a moving vessel. Three-dimensional imaging has the potential to significantly i… [+5444 chars]
28 with 20 posters participating Sometimes science can be a messy endeavornot to mention "disgusting and smelly." That's how British researchers described their experiments monitoring dead sea bass … [+3453 chars]
An all fiber-based approach to generating special optical beams, called Bessel beams, could open up new applications in imaging, optical trapping and communications. Bessel beams look quite differen… [+3078 chars]
Astronomers at the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i have released a stunning image that shows two spiral galaxies in the process of colliding and merging. The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC … [+3706 chars]
The ability of a plant to re-direct the development of its shoots in the direction of a light source is known as phototropism. An international team is now one step closer to explaining a central ob… [+4825 chars]