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- Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics
- The lifetime journeys of manure-based microbes
- Stash of stem cells found in a human parasite
- Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol for their own good
- Small groups of brain cells store concepts for memory formation -- from Luke Skywalker to your grandmother
| Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:32 AM PST Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities. |
| The lifetime journeys of manure-based microbes Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:32 AM PST Studies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are shedding some light on the microbes that dwell in cattle manure -- what they are, where they thrive, where they struggle, and where they can end up. |
| Stash of stem cells found in a human parasite Posted: 22 Feb 2013 11:31 AM PST Researchers have now found stem cells inside the parasite that cause schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in the world. These stem cells can regenerate worn-down organs, which may help explain how they can live for years or even decades inside their host. |
| Fruit flies force their young to drink alcohol for their own good Posted: 22 Feb 2013 07:29 AM PST When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps. The finding adds to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom. |
| Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:30 AM PST Concepts in our minds -- from Luke Skywalker to our grandmother -- are represented by their own distinct group of neurons, according to new research. |
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