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April 19, 2013

11:33 AM | A New Inflammatory “Danger” Signal Spotted and Stopped

When you drive a car, sometimes it’s fine to just chug along. But if there’s a threat you might suddenly have to take action to get out of trouble. Could it be similar for front-line immune cells called macrophages when an infection tries to take hold? A new study suggests that unthreatened macrophages tick over [...]

July 31, 2012

11:06 AM | Getting a Grip on the Goose Barnacle

Some people use social media to keep up with breaking news. Some sign in to catch up with friends and meet business contacts. But a group of researchers in Galway, Ireland, is using Twitter and Facebook to find… barnacles. Barnacles? It’s not as peculiar as it may sound. By encouraging members of the public to [...]

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Scientists Model Biofuel Production After Ants’ Fungus Gardens

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Bacteriology are studying the colonies of leaf-cutter ants as they cultivate thriving communities of fungi and bacteria using freshly cut plant material. While these fungi provide nutrients for the ants, researchers are hoping to replicate the process and apply it for better biofuel production. Read more »

Aylward, F., Burnum-Johnson, K., Tringe, S., Teiling, C., Tremmel, D., Moeller, J., Scott, J., Barry, K., Piehowski, P., Nicora, C. & Malfatti, S. (2013). Leucoagaricus gongylophorus Produces Diverse Enzymes for the Degradation of Recalcitrant Plant Polymers in Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungus Gardens, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 79 (12) 3770-3778. DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03833-12

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Video Tip of the Week: ENCODE ChIP-Seq Significance Tool

We’ve been doing training and workshops on the UCSC Genome Browser for 10 years now. It’s a tremendous tool that has to be a foundational item in your toolkit in genomics. But–there may be times when you want to examine some of the data that you can find there in another way, with a different [...]

Auerbach, R., Chen, B. & Butte, A. (2013). Relating Genes to Function: Identifying Enriched Transcription Factors using the ENCODE ChIP-Seq Significance Tool, Bioinformatics, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt316

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The Roots Of Our Animal Family Tree

Biology concepts – porifera, last common ancestor, placozoa, cladogram, lower metazoan, bilaterians Bonobo apes (Pan paniscus) are very closely related to chimpanzees. They have longer legs than common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and are also distinguished by having pink lips. I think this makes them look significantly more human-like. Also like humans, the families seem to be run by the mothers.Humans are descended from primates; we share 99% of our DNA with chimpanzees and Bonobos (pygmy […]

Dohrmann, M. & Worheide, G. (2013). Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?, Integrative and Comparative Biology, DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict008

Schierwater, B., Eitel, M., Jakob, W., Osigus, H., Hadrys, H., Dellaporta, S., Kolokotronis, S. & DeSalle, R. (2009). Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis, PLoS Biology, 7 (1) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000020

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Psychology At the Movies: Essentialist Musings in Man of Steel

www.imdb.com Yesterday, my spouse and I dropped our newborn daughter off with Grandma and then popped over to the local theater to see this summer's much anticipated comic-book blockbuster Man of Steel. By any standard, Man of Steel is exceptionally light when it comes to philosophical musings: The plot is predictably linear--good guys fight bad guys who are trying to kill them. At first glance, it may seem like a stretch to write an entire blog entry (for a psychology blog) about the […]

Kraus MW & Keltner D (2013). Social Class Rank, Essentialism, and Punitive Judgment., Journal of personality and social psychology, PMID: 23713698

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Quantum-Dot Microscopy Method Allows to Improve Solar Cells

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new microscopy technique that uses a process similar to how an old tube television produces a picture—cathodoluminescence—to image nanoscale features. Combining the best features of optical and scanning electron microscopy, the fast, versatile, and high-resolution technique allows scientists to view surface and subsurface features potentially as small as 10 nanometers in size. This technique […]

Yoon, H., Lee, Y., Bohn, C., Ko, S., Gianfrancesco, A., Steckel, J., Coe-Sullivan, S., Talin, A. & Zhitenev, N. (2013). High-resolution photocurrent microscopy using near-field cathodoluminescence of quantum dots, AIP Advances, 3 (6) 62112. DOI: 10.1063/1.4811275

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