Biology

Biology is the science that studies living organisms. All around us are other life forms living in caves, trees, under rocks, in water, the oceans and on land. A biologist is a person who studies biology.

There are 5 unifying principles of biology: cell theory; evolution; genes; homeostasis; and energy. Biological systems can be difficult to study because there are so many different interactions with other organisms and the environment even on the smallest of scales. Biologists believe that there are over 10 million different kinds of life forms or species on Earth.

There are also many branches of biology including agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, botany, cryobiology, entomology, genetics, marine biology, oceanography, virology and zoology to name just a handful. The word biology is made up of two smaller words: bio meaning life and logy meaning the study of science. Biology is the science of life and plays a large part in the development of health treatments, new solutions for diseases, and solutions for genetic issues like hair loss.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Biology”

• Device enables worlds first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 807
  Zoo Atlanta recently became the first zoological institution in the world to obtain voluntary blood pressure readings from a gorilla. This groundbreaking stride was made possible by the Gorilla Tough Cuff, a blood pressure reading system devised through partnership with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical ...
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• Discovery in worms points to more targeted cancer treatment

  
  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories — Authority: 807
  Researchers at Queens University have found a link between two genes involved in cancer formation in humans, by examining the genes in worms. The groundbreaking discovery provides a foundation for how tumor-forming genes interact, and may offer a drug target for cancer treatment.
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• Scientists decipher the formation of lasting memories

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 138
  Researchers Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brains ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they were able to switch on and off the animals ability to form lasting memories by adding a substance ...
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• Ancient penguin DNA raises doubts about accuracy of genetic dating techniques

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 138
  Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.
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• Iowa State University researcher discovers key to vital DNA, protein interaction

  
  Biology News Net — Authority: 138
  A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."
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• Tuna fishing kills an albatross every five minutes

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Every time you open a can of tuna, an albatross dies. [More]
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• ISB Nabs $8M for Cancer Genome

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 708
  Biotech , Finances , Genomics Luke Timmerman wrote: The Institute for Systems Biology, a Seattle-based nonprofit research center, said today it has secured an $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas, an effort to identify new targets for cancer drugs based ...
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• Does Hunting Help or Hurt the Environment?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Dear EarthTalk: Hunting seems to be a real controversy among environmental advocates. Can you set the record straight: Is hunting good or bad for the environment? --Bill Davis, New York, NY [More]
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• Why Do Animals, Especially Males, Have So Many Different Colors?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  This male Hetaerina damselfly from the occisa species has red spots at the base and tip of its wings but no black pigmentation.Why do so many animal species — including fish, birds and insects — display such rich diversity in coloration and other traits? In new research, Gregory Grether, UCLA professor of ecology ...
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• Organ Regeneration In Zebrafish: Unraveling The Mechanisms

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Unlike humans, zebrafish are able to regenerate amputated appendages.The search for the holy grail of regenerative medicine — the ability to “grow back” a perfect body part when one is lost to injury or disease — has been under way for years, yet the steps involved in this seemingly magic process are still ...
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• Quagga mussels imperil Lake Mead

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Greenwire : Experts warn that if not stopped, quagga mussels could poison Lake Mead near Las Vegas. “We want to watch these levels in fish and birds to see how things change,” said Shawn Gerstenberger, executive associate dean at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “What we’ve seen in the Great Lakes shows ...
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• This is why I want my PhD in Human Evolution

  
  Blag Hag — Authority: 587
  I love SMBC so, so much : Though come on, I totally would have evolved a gun arm! That biologists must not have very high fitness.
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• GST Fusion Proteins

  
  Bench Marks — Authority: 408
  Glutathione-S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins are used in a wide variety of applications in the lab. GST was originally selected as a fusion moiety because it’s not sequestered in inclusion bodies when expressed in bacteria and it can be affinity-purified without denaturation. Purification is fairly ...
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• Pig Cognition Studies...Parallels With Humans

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  In the current issue of Animal Behaviour, researchers present evidence that domestic pigs can quickly learn how mirrors work and will use their understanding of reflected images to scope out their surroundings and find their food.
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• Ask the Brains: Why Do We Have Trouble Facing Our Credit Cards the "Right" Way?

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  Why do most customers at my bookstore have trouble under­standing my instructions to swipe their debit cards with the magnetic stripe “toward me?” Almost everyone positions their card the wrong way, then asks in confusion, “Stripe toward me?”--meaning themselves. What is causing everyone to make the same ...
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• Penile erectile tissue grown in lab

  
  Scientific American - Observations — Authority: 128
  Advances in tissue bioengineering have enabled lab-grown bladders, tracheas, cardiac patches and now penis parts. [More]
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• Quagga mussels imperil Lake Mead

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 434
  Greenwire : Experts warn that if not stopped, quagga mussels could poison Lake Mead near Las Vegas. “We want to watch these levels in fish and birds to see how things change,” said Shawn Gerstenberger, executive associate dean at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “What we’ve seen in the Great Lakes shows ...
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• West African giraffe numbers on the rise

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 434
  Greenwire : Once on the brink of extinction, the number of giraffes in West Africa has crept to more than 200. New education efforts and laws banning hunting and poaching have caused the herd size of the western subspecies to quadruple from an estimated 50 in 1996. The government “realized they had an invaluable ...
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• The Biology of Leadership

  
  Mind Body Smile — Authority: 141
  “We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.” -William Arthur Ward The Biology of Leadership: “The salient discovery is that certain things leaders do — ...
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• 50 Years Ago: The Nutcracker Man

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  NOVEMBER 1959 NERVE GROWTH -- “No longer do physicians encourage the patient with a regenerated facial nerve to try to regain control of facial expression by training; their advice today is to inhibit all expression, to practice a ‘poker face’ in order to make the two sides of the face match in appearance. ...
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