Bacterial Cell Not as Simple as Previously Thought
When we first learn about cells in biology, we are taught that bacterial cells are simple, and animal and plant cells are more complex.…
Category: Biology
Short, Tall, or Average: It’s in Your DNA
Genes are bundles of DNA that exist in your cells that affect how you look, grow, and age. Since the human genome was fully decoded…
Growing plants with colored light changes their nutrient content
Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…
Grow High-Tunnel Lettuce Year Round on Fish Waste
A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…
Resurrecting Ancient Proteins and Simulating Evolution in the Lab
How does a cell stay alive? How do molecules in a cell “know” how to react with one another? Does this chemistry become more…
Computer techniques allow scientists to understand how bacteria work together
Single celled prokaryotic microbes, such as bacteria and archaea, control almost every aspect of our daily lives, from our individual health…
An Expedition to Collect Fish in Africa for a Gene Archive
It was no ordinary fishing trip. In May 2011, Denis Tweddle, a research associate of the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity…
Expedition to find rare pipefish in Queensland Australia
My research interests are centered on the evolutionary relationships among species of seahorse and pipefish in the family Syngnathidae…
The First Warm-Blooded Fish Ever Discovered
New research by NOAA Fisheries has revealed the opah, or moonfish, as the first fully warm-blooded fish that circulates heated blood…
People power in Kenya greatly improves local fisheries
Harnessing ‘people power’ to manage fisheries in the developing world has significantly benefited local communities and coral…