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Biology News Stories
News about biology, genetics, ecology and evolution, insects, mammals, marine science, plants and zoology...
21 December 2017
Not feeling the cold could be key to the ability of hibernators, like squirrels and hamsters, to snooze their way...
21 December 2017
Scientists have found that immune system cells provide growth hormones to the developing embryo...
15 December 2017
How the building blocks of life might have formed
08 December 2017
Can computers speak dolphin?
01 December 2017
Scientists have discovered the key reefs that could save other reefs from destruction...
24 November 2017
Did the evolutionary process towards musical abilities begin in the primeval oceans? And have Human footsteps...
23 November 2017
Mice exposed to allergens pass on protective proteins to offspring through breastfeeding
23 November 2017
Dolly the cloned sheep didn't have early-onset arthritis, a new study looking at her skeleton has concluded.
23 November 2017
New hair-thin brain probe could revolutionise how we record brain activity
23 November 2017
A chemical released by intestinal worms to prevent the immune system attacking them has been isolated by scientists in...
19 November 2017
Scientists have developed a new method of growing liver cancer cells in the lab, which could greatly improve our...
10 November 2017
New study measures mechanisms for reversal of Type 2 diabetes in rats.
03 November 2017
Fossil finds have revealed male woolly mammoths were more likely to fall into natural traps
02 November 2017
Drugs present in wastewater used to irrigate farmland can affect the growth and development of insects feeding on...
18 October 2017
Plants use a trick of the light to make their flowers look blue to bees...
14 October 2017
New technique tried in human embryos
08 October 2017
Technique used for the first time in a UK lab
05 October 2017
Three quarters of the world's honey is laced with neonicotinoid insecticides, a new study has shown this week.
28 September 2017
Debris swept away by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has carried hundreds of new species across the Pacific Ocean to the...
21 September 2017
A large electric eel can deliver a shock ten times more powerful than a TASER, a new study has shown.
15 September 2017
Bird skulls and brains resemble those of young dinosaurs and may provide insight into their evolutionary origin and...
14 September 2017
Human population, agriculture, tourism and trade are moving microbes around the world at unprecedented levels,...
14 September 2017
Ancient viruses live on in our genomes.