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Conflicting ideas
associate director at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, US, Malik studies the genetic conflicts that occur between and within organisms as different genetic entities compete to maximise their evolutionary success. During his...
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Habitats of the World: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists and Ecologists
the habitats by region will make more sense to the traveler, although it does lead to repetition as similar habitats occur in different regions. There is a mammal and bird bias but it’s pragmatic, since birders must be the main target audience. The...
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Reports
issues associated with Huntington’s but are less aware of the emotional, behavioural, and communication issues which can occur. I am sure I am not the only audience member who felt they were leaving with a greater understanding and appreciation for this...
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Nichola Raihani FRSB: The Social Instinct
of research in a way dovetailed into what I mostly do now, which is research on humans. A lot of human cooperation does occur within the family, but we also have this completely other set of cognitive strategies that we use to facilitate social...
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Out of the woods
a slightly more promising picture. The impacts of ash dieback are known to vary between populations and sites. This may occur for three reasons. First, simply the chance avoidance of infection; second, some environments are unfavourable to the fungus or...
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15 Conservation Topics to Watch in 2020
may also have population-level effects on native wildlife. Global declines of kelp forest Kelps, an order of brown algae, occur on 25% of the world’s coastlines and function as complex habitats for many species. The ecological benefits of kelp forests,...
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Early developers
with lungs from control-pouch young. Previous studies on wallabies have also shown dramatic changes in gut morphology[9] occur in the suckled young and take place while the young are still in the pouch. There is also significant development of the...
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Queenspotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart Of the Hive
is a small glossary to explain the terms used in the book. This is a highly readable account that summarises the events that occur both inside and outside a typical beehive and will appeal to young naturalists,amateur beekeepers and nature lovers who...
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Extraterrestrial life science
accelerated skeletal muscle ageing’ (MicroAge) – will investigate whether the failure of muscle adaptations to exercise that occurs in muscle exposed to microgravity and in muscle with age are analogous. This will require muscle cells to be cultured in...
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Life Finds a Way: What evolution teaches us about creativity
to unintended misconstrual by both authors and readers. However, some convergence of this polarisation of approaches might occur if both the realm of the subconscious and the notion of emergence, whereby physicochemical events elicit qualitatively...
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What is ethics dumping?
the phrase ‘ethics dumping’ to describe this phenomenon. Anthropologists head into the rainforest in Brazil Ethics dumping occurs in three main varieties: firstly, researchers from high-income regions do research abroad to sidestep restrictive legal and...
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Replace, reduce, refine
do not completely recreate what happens in humans, where contact time can be much shorter and where often transmission may occur over a greater distance. Professor Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London wanted to address this and explore ways of...
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Molecular Machines: A Materials Science Approach
Zocchi Princeton University Press, £50 Giovanni Zocchi introduces his subject by examining conformational transitions that occur in DNA deformation and continues with the mechanisms of enzyme action. Interestingly for the biologist, the underpinning of...
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Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs: 50 Years of Research 1967–2017
that slightly, telling the story of what happened in the interim years and why it took so long for the second meeting to occur. However, the research within this volume shows that research on psychoactive drugs is finally being taken seriously as a...
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RSB Fellows respond to ECJ decision on genetically modified organisms
all breeding techniques from conventional to whatever the latest approaches might be. “The idea that things that could occur ‘naturally’ are distinct and somehow automatically safe for people and for the environment is untenable. "The distinction...
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'I push people to apply the scientific method to crazy questions'
What are the wider aims of your lab? I'm interested in how we can create living tissue or, one day, organisms that don't occur in nature without touching the genome. Can we take all these lessons about mechanobiology and couple that to our more recent...
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Focus on: Image Manipulation
with a computer or smartphone, has made adjusting images quick and easy. High-profile cases of image fraud continue to occur regularly in the biosciences[2] but aside from Rossner's studies on JCB papers (he found the number of papers showing signs of...
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'I push people to apply the scientific method to crazy questions'
What are the wider aims of your lab? I'm interested in how we can create living tissue or, one day, organisms that don't occur in nature without touching the genome. Can we take all these lessons about mechanobiology and couple that to our more recent...
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Are our memories formed by an ancient virus?
encapsulating its own RNA, Arc capsids can take up seemingly any abundant nearby RNA, a process that has also been shown to occur in retroviruses. So, just like viruses, Arc capsids encapsulate and protect RNA. Another defining characteristic of viruses...
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Diving Beetles of the World: Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae
holometabolic and the aquatic larvae are morphologically distinct, undergoing pupation to the adult stage. Pupation tends to occur out of water, the adults being air breathers that carry bubbles under their wings. Aquatic ecotypes are described, with...
