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.

Bloggers, who have an interest in biology whether they be students, researchers or just the general blogging public, will find Bloggapedia covers resources, book reviews and virtual labs.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “biology”

 

• Not only is there no scientific method, but biology does not need math – says prominent evolutionary biologist

  
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  Okay, so cosmic Darwinism’s Lee Smolin doesn’t think there is a scientific method, and now it turns out the founder of sociobiology (father of evolutionary psychology), E.O. Wilson, doesn’t think that math matters much to science: During my decades of teaching biology at Harvard, I watched sadly as bright ...
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• Talking Biopolitics is Back!

  
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  A series of live web-based conversations with cutting-edge thinkers on the social meaning of human biotechnologies will be kicking off tomorrow. RSVP now to join the conversations! read more
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• Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity

  
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  Parasitic wasps switch off the immune systems of fruit flies by draining calcium from the flies blood cells, a finding that offers new insight into how pathogens break through a hosts defenses. read more
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• Organism : Genes :: Forest : Trees

  
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  Decades of focus on genes may have led the scientific community away from a balanced exploration of the organisms that those genes define - whether they be plants, animals or microorganisms - and more toward gene-focused directions: inward, toward the world of cellular and molecular biology, and outward, toward the ...
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• Opportunistic pathogens evolve mostly harmlessly in healthy humans

  
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  Humans interact with bacteria almost every minute of our lives. Of the millions of these interactions, only a handful result in disease, and some bacteria only cause infections under certain conditions. In a recent PLOS ONE study, researchers probe these healthy human-bacterial relations  in one particularly ...
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• Importance of Underground Life

  
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  Conservation aims to protect important natural resources, both living and non-living; recognising that these resources play a vital role in modern life. Biodiversity (Photo credit: Dano ) Biodiversity (Photo credit: Dano ) There is a temptation to focus conservation attempts on large animals that we can ...
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• Intestinal bacteria protect against E. coli O157:H7

  
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  A cocktail of non-pathogenic bacteria naturally occurring in the digestive tract of healthy humans can protect against a potentially lethal E. coli infection in animal models according to research presented today at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. The research, conducted by ...
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• Principles of locomotion in confined spaces could help fire ant-inspired robot teams work underground (w/ video)

  
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  Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.
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• Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity

  
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  Parasitic wasps switch off the immune systems of fruit flies by draining calcium from the flies blood cells, a finding that offers new insight into how pathogens break through a hosts defenses.
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• Immune Cell Macrophage Responsible For Tissue Regeneration

  
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  Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) researchers have discovered that white blood cells called macrophages may hold the key to tissue regeneration. This discovery may help in new therapies involving repairing and regenerating tissues in the heart, spinal cord and lungs. Researchers studying salamanders ...
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• NanoString Technologies Maneuvers In Line for $86M IPO

  
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  Luke Timmerman NanoString Technologies just started selling its first diagnostic test after 10 years in business, and now it’s getting ready for another milestone—an initial public offering. The Seattle-based company said today that it is seeking to raise as much as $86.3 million in an IPO, according to a ...
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• Pesticide Makers Seek Answers as Bee Losses Sting Agriculture

  
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  By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Monsanto Co is hosting a "Bee Summit." Bayer AG is breaking ground on a "Bee Care Center." And Sygenta AG is funding grants for research into the accelerating demise of honeybees in the United States, where the insects pollinate fruits and vegetables that make up roughly a quarter of the ...
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• Differences Between Sebaceous And Sweat Glands

  
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  Glands are basically organs in the human body which manage what goes in and out of the body. They synthesize the body to release fluids such as hormones or breast milk. The brain controls whether the glands release or don’t release these different hormones. Hormones control the shape, looks, urges, and emotions ...
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• Hydro power frenzy threatens Carpathian mountains

  
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  The frenzy to build hydropower stations across the Carpathian mountains poses an "imminent" threat to biodiversity in Eastern Europe, conservationist group WWF warned Monday.
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• Grow Your Own – Call for Projects

  
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  Science Gallery is calling synthetic biologists, bio-artists, bio-designers, amateur biotechnologists and bio-hackers to submit projects to their upcoming flagship exhibition GROW YOUR OWN. “[This is] the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer…. This is a ...
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• fury of the french at antwerp, poltical scandals and shamless hypocrisy

  
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  Fury of the French in Antwerp by Ferdinand de Braekeleer . Oil on canvas. Belgium, Between 1827 and 1846. I’m not an expert on Antwerp history, but I am fairly certain this is a depiction of one night in the Belgian Revolution. Many in North America should be able to relate to this frustration by an early liberal ...
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• No Church in the Wild

  
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  From BlaiseP’s recent obituary of Kenneth Waltz : Da Vinci once said “Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” Waltz did the opposite of his peers: he looked ...
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• Saved From Living Death: How Genetically Modifying Chestnuts Could Bring Them Back

  
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  We are getting very close to being able to bring back these gorgeous trees that used to dominate forests in the Eastern U.S. Now the big question is whether we should. Image courtesy of Wikimedia commons . Around the turn of the 20th century, the forests in the eastern U.S. were dominated by the American ...
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• Lovelorn frogs bag closest crooner

  
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  What lures a lady frog to her lover? Good looks, the sound of his voice, the size of his pad or none of the above? After weighing up their options, female strawberry poison frogs (Oophaga pumilio) bag the closest crooner they can, finds research in BioMed Centrals open access journal Frontiers of Zoology . This ...
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• Florida parent says “religious zealots” got teen daughter arrested for lesbian relationship

  
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  An 18-year-old girl was arrested for statutory rape over a same-sex relationship in Florida because of bigoted parents, according to the mother of the arrested teen. Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt was arrested February 16 by the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office on two counts of lewd or lascivious battery on child. Her ...
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