Tag:生命科学

Mar 23, 2012

Know Your Enemy: Japanese Beetles

去年，我写了一系列关于小动物的帖子，我们喜欢讨厌：蚊子，蜱虫，马花，黑寡妇和木匠蜜蜂。随着春天的到来，我决定拿起我离开的地方。首先：日本甲虫或，因为玫瑰种植者称他们为他们，＃@！* *日本甲虫。顾名思义，日本甲虫–…

Feb 3, 2012

诺罗维西斯：它是什么，我们如何战斗它

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Lee-Ann Jaykus, a professor in NC State’s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, and lead investigator of a $25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to study human noroviruses. If you have spent a day ortwo…

2012年1月30日

What’s A Genotype? What’s A Phenotype? And Why Do I Care?

遗传学研究是有趣的东西，关于令人兴奋的新发现的新闻故事似乎几乎每天都会播出。但很多人根本没有词汇来了解发生的事情。“无论如何，什么是基因型？”你可能会问。“什么是表型？我为什么要关心？“好问题！我们来谈谈这个little…

2011年12月16日

Trivial Pursuits: The Abstract’s 2011 Quiz

摘要staff will be taking off for a couple of weeks to prepare for 2012. In an attempt to amuse and entertain ourselves you, we’ve pulled together a quick quiz on some of the research we’ve written about over the past year. See how you do! Questions: 1). Until recently, researchers thought Greecewas…

Dec 9, 2011

Insects And Evolution

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by post-doctoral researcher Michelle Trautwein, whose work at NC State focuses on entomology, genetics and evolution. Here she explains what we know about insect evolution – and why it matters. Our planet is swarming with insects. Literally. Six-legged creatures account for the majority of life on earth, by远的…

2011年11月28日

Read This! Book Recommendations For Kids And Armchair Researchers

I think it is important to get the general public – and kids – interested in research. It’s never too late to get grown-ups excited about science. And maybe the child you encourage today will be a future Albert Schweitzer, Marie Curie or Steve Jobs. With the holidays approaching, now’s your chance to gobuy…

Nov 18, 2011

为什么感恩节可能会让你困倦

Well folks, it’s almost Turkey Day again. Last year I tackled some questions about tryptophan, and why Thanksgiving dinner can make you pass out on the floor in front of the football game. Super-short version: tryptophan isn’t the culprit, gluttony is. When you gorge yourself, your body diverts blood away from your brain to帮助…

2011年10月25日

With or Without You

Virgin motherhood by a copperhead snake. Sperm storage for more than five years by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake before fertilization and motherhood. Reptile reproduction, to steal from Alice in Wonderland, is getting curioser and curioser. In a new paper, Dr. Warren Booth, an NC State postdoctoral researcher, and a colleague from Georgia State University showtwo…

Oct 18, 2011

Winds of (Climate) Change

In a climate-change paradox, plants and animals are forced to make difficult choices. Changes in climate can force plants and animals out of their homes in protected areas – like state and national parks and other conserved areas – and into areas where they are less apt to survive. As these plants and animalschase…

2011年10月12日

研究！即将推出你附近的家

Citizen science is all about getting people to become active participants in the scientific process. And a new research project that focuses on the wild life in our homes is a great opportunity to use citizen science to collect meaningful data and advance our understanding of the world around us in a fun and有趣的…

Sep 21, 2011

Into Africa, Via the Penguin Conveyor Belt

Dr. Dan Ksepka is an expert on prehistoric penguins. In his latest research, he delves into the origins of several species of now-extinct African penguin to find out whether they all evolved from one common ancestor or whether they were distinct species that arrived at separate times. His conclusion, based upon fossil evidence, is那…

Sep 8, 2011

怪物鱼Q＆A，Zebb Hogan

编者的注意事项：Zeba Hogan博士是内华达州大学助理研究教授，以及霍尔国家地理系列“怪物鱼”。Hogan是NC州弗雷德里克和Joan Barkalow尊贵的保护主义讲座的主题演讲者，将于9月14日从1：30-2：30中举行。在David Clark Labs，101室。该事件…

2011年7月7日

家Field Advantage

足球赛季,神奇的土地en regalia-bedecked fans gather to cheer on the home team and elevate tailgating to an art form. But fans aren’t the only ones who have favorite colors: it turns out that the football fields themselves also have a preference. Why? Because the health of the turf on a footballfield…

Aug 26, 2011

Send In The Ants

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by David Hunt, of NC State’s News Services. I don’t want to alarm you, but you may have Camponotus americanus crawling around in your backyard. Or Tetramorium caespitum creeping between the cracks in your front walkway. In fact, there are more than 200 species of these critters sharingour…

May 18, 2011

Corn Gene Repels Diseases, or A Dating Game With No Winners

记住“约会游戏”？节目的概念 - 在20世纪60年代首次出现在电视上 - 很简单。一个女人被三个合格的学士学位分区分开。她会问这些男人任何思维麻木/稍微繁殖的问题，然后根据答案的质量，选择其中一个bachelors…