Biology & Life Sciences

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Chemistry World May 30, 2007 Victoria Gill	Salty Water Makes Barnacles Stick Researchers recently found that the saltiness of seawater triggers barnacles' cement-like natural bond.
Science News May 26, 2007 Janet Raloff	Food for Thought: Chocolate Constituent Bests Fluoride Researchers have discovered an alternative to fluoride that, in preliminary tests, better strengthens teeth and protects them from acids.
Smithsonian June 2007 David Zax	Interview: May Berenbaum An interview with an expert on the colony collapse disorder talks about the role of cellphones, pesticides and alien abductions in the honeybee crisis.
Chemistry World May 23, 2007 Victoria Gill	Pigment Helps Fungi to 'Eat' Radiation Radiation can be used as an energy source by some fungi, according to a report from scientists.
Chemistry World May 22, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Scientists Seek Indicators of Illness A 17 million-pound fund has been set up by the UK's Medical Research Council for research into biomarkers, the tell-tale body chemicals that are associated with particular diseases.
Chemistry World May 22, 2007 Victoria Gill	GSK Drug's Safety Questioned A prominent US clinician has concluded that a diabetes drug produced by UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline increases the risks of heart attack and death.
Wired May 22, 2007 Amy Cortese	Belching Bovines Are Bad for the Environment: How to Clear the Air Thanks to a ruminant stomach and a diet heavy in grass, a single heifer belches up to 300 pounds of methane a day
Wired May 22, 2007 Greta Lorge	Can a Tiny Microphone Save the Bees -- and the Food Supply? An entomologist at the University of Montana, has decided to wire this hive because he believes it's in the early stages of "colony collapse disorder," a syndrome that has caused the deaths of billions of bees nationwide -- and baffled scientists.
Scientific American June 2007 Sally Lehrman	Going Beyond X and Y Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.
Scientific American June 2007	Serengeti in the Dakotas A proposed Pleistocene rewilding would restock the Great Plains with large mammal species like those that roamed the continent before humans crossed the Bering Strait -- species such as camels, lions and elephants.
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