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Focus On: Citation Metrics
such as JCR and ISI. Garfield has since said he had no idea the influence his idea would have on academic life. "It did not occur to me that'impact' would one day become so controversial," he wrote in an essay in 2005. "I expected it to be used...
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From Organoids to Gastruloids
start of gastrulation[14]. Many of the questions regarding the development of our organs and how human embryos are patterned occur after this point. There are many ethical questions surrounding the use of ESCs, which must be obtained from human embryos...
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To Dye For
for yellow dyes – dyer's rocket or mignonette (Reseda luteola) being the reference on the colour index. A flavone, luteolin, occurs throughout the plant and extraction involves preparing an infusion or decoction of the fresh or dried aerial parts of the...
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Animal Communication And Noise (Animal Signals And Communication 2)
However, when human-derived noise is involved, disruptions to these forms of communication and behaviour can and do occur. This is the focus of Animal Communication and Noise, the second of four volumes by numerous authors on the subject of non-human...
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Doing Global Science: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in the Global Research Enterprise
way, but human beings are fallible, and fraud, falsification, plagiarism and other forms of irresponsible behaviour do occur. Such conduct interferes with the progress of research and can bring science into disrepute. So what do you do if you encounter...
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Companion to Wildlife Gardening
world around you. Baines writes that by following the seasons, you can become more immersed in and aware of the changes that occur in your own garden, and begin to witness the sometimes dramatic events that unfold among the wildlife in parks and...
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Going back in genes
– that is, the movement of genetic material between species of unicellular and/or multicellular organisms (Fig. 2b). LGT can occur through many mechanisms, from the simple uptake of one prokaryote's genetic material by another to the transmission of DNA...
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War of the Worms
However, that is not to say that their presence goes unfelt. Depending on the species of helminth, a range of symptoms can occur. Some are minor such as nausea and pneumonia caused by the larval stages of the hookworms Necator americanus and Ancylostoma...
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Resistance fighters
of the channel to deltamethrin (a pyrethroid insecticide) in the lab. This is a problem in itself, but when this mutation co-occurs with a second mutation in the same gene (methionine substituted by leucine at position 918, termed 'super kdr'), the...
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James Borrell: Eight reasons why zoos are good for conservation
so few reintroductions actually happen. I would argue that it'snot the zoos that are at fault – a reintroduction can't occur if the reason a species was driven to extinction in the first place hasn't been resolved. 4. In 2014, 700 million people visited...
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Survival of the smelliest
is just enough variability in male response that a few maleswill respond to new ratios or molecules as changes in blend occur during speciation. Fig1: Different blends of chemicals in the sex pheromones of related species of moth Change in the...
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Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine awarded
to novel drug discovery." Parasitic diseases involve another living organism transmitting an infection to an individual, and occur widespread across both the animal and plant kingdom. According to the World Health Organisation 25% of global mortality -...
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The Ornaments of Life
without detailed study. The sheer number of species present in the tropics makes this difficult, so species loss can occur before we are able to understand what we are losing. There is still a chance to conserve many species, however. This book, being...
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No laughing matter: Sophie Scott
some people pass out when they laugh. Being overwhelmed by laughter suggests there are some really big motor changes that occur when we start laughing. You see a change in muscular tone and almost a weakness in humans when they laugh, which I haven't...
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Starling Murmuration Survey Launches
often form large groups and undertake spectacular aerial displays known as murmurations. Little is known about why this occurs. The Society of Biology and the University of Gloucestershire have today launched the Starling Murmuration Survey as part of...
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Starling Survey
often form large groups and undertake spectacular aerial displays known as murmurations. Little is known about why this occurs. Our starling survey aims to address the murmuration mystery using potentially a very large dataset, provided by people across...
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Sport
drinks to maximise performance, while microbiologists and pharmacologists work to develop treatments for diseases that occur commonly in athletes (e.g. foot infections in football and basketball players). Keeping healthy Life expectancy is increasing....
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Flying Ant Survey features on BBC’s The One Show
summer months, but data collected by the Society of Biology's Flying Ant Survey will help to discover why flying ant days occur, and if we might be able to predict them. Dr Nesbit explained that worker ants don't have wings but on one day a year the...
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£52M boost for skills and training in UK science sectors
those who would like to return to a career in the biosciences after an extended career break. Such a career break can occur for a variety of reasons including focusing on caring responsibilities, ill-health, relocation, unemployment or a switch of...
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Biological Emergence-based Evolutionary Mechanism (BEEM)
of their large numbers, creating complex behaviour, in much the same manner as social insects do. This networking may occur between cells and tissues, as well as between individual organisms. The selfish gene of Dawkins is apparently a delusion. While...
