Navigation Links


caterpillar at Biology News

The very defensive caterpillar

Caterpillars are bleeding defensive! Insects are known to lack an antibody-mediated immune response, and research in caterpillars has recently shown that, instead, they produce protective proteins in response to bacterial infection. The pattern recognition receptors (PRR) and antibacterial effectors produced at a first infection still function to protect against a repeated challenge. These result...

Plants tell caterpillars when it's safe to forage

The world is filled with cues that could influence the daily feeding patterns of an organism. Many plants, for example, respond to foraging damage by releasing specialized chemical signals - volatile organic compounds that evaporate in the air - that attract the forager's natural enemies. This strategy is obviously no use against a cow, but proves effective when the offender is a caterpillar and...

Caterpillars tell us how bacteria cause disease

Caterpillars and other invertebrates are helping to provide a cheap, easy and safe way to identify the genes which help bacteria cause infections in humans. Researchers from the University of Bath have discovered a way to sort through large numbers of bacterial gene sequences by testing them in caterpillars to see how their immune systems respond. This new technique known as Rapid Virulence Annot...
caterpillar at Biology Products
caterpillar at Biology Technology
caterpillar at Medicine News

Hormone Transforming Caterpillars to Moths Identified

Recent research has led to the identification of a starter hormone responsible for initiating the transformation of caterpillars into moths//. The research was led by David Champlin, a biology professor at the University of Southern Maine, and assisted by students Paul Allee of Portland and Steven MacWhinnie of Gray and three colleagues who are professors at the University of Washington...
caterpillar at Medicine Products
caterpillar at Medicine Technology
Other TagsKateallocateLogicalLogicalLogicalLogicalLogicalLogical
(Date:10/13/2008)...ver link with benign breast disease, or when tumor...ay News) -- Drinking coffee or consuming other caf...cancer risk, new research indicates. , Caffeine...sk of breast cancer," observed study co-author Dr....medicine, in the department of medicine at Brigham...
(Date:10/13/2008)...of the Chargers Points to Myo-Med for Injury Recov...- Chargers running-back,sensation LaDainian Tomlin...,a key to his recent injury rebound. In Sunday,s g...h player in NFL history to hit 11,000 career yards...pected by critics who,thought his early season inj...
(Date:10/13/2008)...r 2008 Earnings Conference Call on October 30 - -...are Conference on Nov...Investors and Financial Analysts on ...PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gen-Probe Incorporated,(N...ll webcast three upcoming,investor events., First...
(Date:10/13/2008)...els were lower than Alzheimer,s patients, healthy ...y News) -- Parkinson,s disease patients are more l...to have vitamin D deficiency, say researchers from...a. , They compared vitamin D levels in 100 Park...healthy people matched for age and other factors. ...
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:Caffeine Consumption Doesn't Raise Overall Breast Cancer Risk 2Health News:Caffeine Consumption Doesn't Raise Overall Breast Cancer Risk 3Health News:Tomlinson Attributes Rebound to Anti-Inflammatory Cream 2Health News:Gen-Probe Announces Webcasts of Three Upcoming Investor Events 2Health News:Gen-Probe Announces Webcasts of Three Upcoming Investor Events 3Health News:Parkinson's Patients More Prone to Vitamin D Deficiency 2
(Date:10/13/2008)...ferent parts of the brain can come under attack in...to a new study in mice with an MS-like disease, th...ng T cells dictates whether it,s the spinal cord o...researchers at the University of Maryland School o...in St. Louiswill be published online on October 13...
(Date:10/12/2008)...sible explanation for why people who eat more frui...pread of cancers. , They have shown that a fragm...vegetables, binds to and is believed to inhibit ga...l stages of cancer progression. , "Most claims f...pulation studies," says Professor Vic Morris from ...
(Date:10/12/2008)...y journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists f...UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to i...few antibiotics that can be used to combat increas...rchers, led by Dr Rachel McKendry and Professor Ga...able of providing new insight into how antibiotics...
(Date:10/10/2008)...ls with the capacity to build fat, according to a ...ell, a Cell Press publication. Although they have...transplants of the progenitor cells isolated from ...at tissue in animals that are otherwise lacking it... of obesity, a condition characterized by an incre...
Breaking Biology News(10 mins):Pectin power 2Nanotechnology boosts war on superbugs 2Fat-regenerating 'stem cells' found in mice 2A patient who was diagnosed as IPN B without hepatolithiasis 3F 18011 1A patient who was diagnosed as IPN B without hepatolithiasis 3F 18011 2New surgery improves head and neck cancer treatment 3113 1New surgery improves head and neck cancer treatment 3113 2Too Few Cancer Survivors Pursue Healthy Lifestyles 18009 1Too Few Cancer Survivors Pursue Healthy Lifestyles 18009 2Too Few Cancer Survivors Pursue Healthy Lifestyles 18009 3Media Alert 3A 100 Black Men of Atlanta Host 3rd Annual Community Health Fair 18006 1Media Alert 3A 100 Black Men of Atlanta Host 3rd Annual Community Health Fair 18006 2
Other Contentsareataalopeciaalopeciaalopeciafetoproteinantitrypsin