Archive for July, 2007

THIS IS FOR ALL HARRY POTTER FANS

Posted by smaranya on 19th July , 2007

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Greenland really was green once

Posted by smaranya on 5th July , 2007

The surface of most of Greenland is now entombed by a thick ice cap, but some time during the past 800,000 years the southern part of the island actually lived up to its name. It was covered by a thick, verdant boreal forest that would have been similar to what is currently found in [...]

‘Living fossil’ worm sheds light on cancer development

Posted by smaranya on 5th July , 2007

Studies involving a marine worm are providing insights into the evolution of cell division, details of which could help to shed light on cancer development.
Biologists at the University of Oregon have been studying the bristle worm Platynereis dumerilii, an ocean-dwelling worm which develops by a pattern of ‘asymmetrical’ cell division - where two different kinds [...]

Ancient Core To Modern Brains

Posted by smaranya on 5th July , 2007

Hormones control growth, metabolism, reproduction and many other important biological processes. In humans, and all other vertebrates, the chemical signals are produced by specialised brain centres such as the hypothalamus and secreted into the blood stream that distributes them around the body. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) now reveal that the hypothalamus [...]

Some European farmers seeking biotechnology

Posted by smaranya on 5th July , 2007

With only limited herbicides and insecticides available for corn production, some northern European farmers want biotechnology tools for their operations.
Those tools could include glyphosate tolerance, European corn borer protection and corn rootworm protection.
Twelve farmers from Sweden, Lithuania and Denmark traveled to the United States recently, courtesy of Monsanto, to see how biotech traits are used.
The [...]