Discovery

It was reported in ScienceDaily that an international group of researchers led by Dr. Renate Matzke-Karasz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, has indirectly detected signs of giant sperm in fossilized ostracods. Picture shows the length of the filamentous, helical sperm-cells of freshwater ostracods can reach up to ten times the body length of its producer. The longest [...]

In the news reported by ScienceDaily, June 9th, it was mentioned that there has been found a surprising chemical weapon used by some Amazonian poison frogs. The poisen itself identified as never been known before, called as the N-methyldecahydroquinolines. As I read on some sources, it is reported that N-methyldecahydroquinolines known to beat the Class of Alkaloids. [...]

In the previous research held by Departments of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Department of Cancer Biology, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, the induced alignment of membrane proteins has been used for NMR structure determination. Yet recently, Arizona State University researchers reveal for the first time the three-dimensional character of [...]

Beside primates, dogs recently have been found to have a jealous feeling. What a funny fact, right? NewScientist reported, when a dog treated unfair compared to another dogs in the same environment, he’ll show his envy clearly. Well, how will he act, then? Friederike Range and her colleagues at the University of Vienna, Austria, asked [...]