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Friday, July 24, 2009

Incomplete Entries & Computing Bacteria for Friday, July 24, 2009


* Chrysina image licensed under Creative Commons by Charles Lam


You know we often strive to deliver a 'complete' entry of the daily major postings concerning biology, zoology and other life science topics. Today, we had some unique issues with Blogger freezing up, our (public) Dell Optiplex 755 deleting our data and Microsoft Word (the most current version) and DOS dumping our data...all at the same time. We spoke to the IT people who 'run' the computers and servers here at our IP address, but they reported that it is policy for them to delete all documents when rebooting the servers - even when they have been saved. But, we know that is false based on our previous experience.

Warning!: Based on our experience (above) we strongly suggest moving any and all Word Document work to Google Documents as soon as possible if you are working in the same type of environment.

'Bacterial Computers': Genetically Engineered Bacteria Have Potential To Solve Complicated Mathematical Problems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723194321.htm

Halting A Pandemic: NIH Mounts Search For A H1N1 Vaccine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723194958.htm

Chinese experts grow live mice from skin cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre56m4pw-us-stemcells-china/

Cloud Changes Worsen Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723141812.htm

Swine flu is now in 160 Countries





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8167961.stm



Copper Can Help In The Battle Against Influenza A H1N1, Says Scientist

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090723201456.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toucan

New Lizard Specie Discovered in India


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8166904.stm

Modest Fisheries Reduction Could Protect Vast Coastal Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722093802.htm

The Secret of the Green Beetle's Shine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8166157.stm

Chrysina gloriosa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysina

Mayan Forest Conservation 3000 Years Ago

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722150825.htm

Bacterial Wall to Stop Sahara's Growth?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8166929.stm

'Long-haired' Water Molds Are The Most Virulent

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721090136.htm

Saprolegnia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprolegnia


Longer Life For Milk Drinkers, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722083720.htm





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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Another 'Silent Spring' & More for Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Is it another 'Silent Spring'? (No, we're not referring to the late, great Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring...). Well, actually its now summer, but we've noticed some missing residents around here in lower eastern Michigan. We were up - quite early this morning, before sunrise - and noticed a deafening silence. 'Where were the crickets?', we wondered. Any other year, this time of day and season, you could hear their chorus. We find the complete absence of one of our favorite insects a little disturbing and eerie. We have found a couple (two, exactly) of the smaller field-variety brown crickets - during this whole season... Is it a cause for concern?
Always silent and always appearing en masse, we missed another of our insect friends - Ephemeroptera or the Mayfly. Where have they been this year? Is it too cool and wet for them, this year? Or is it some other unknown reason? Is it linked to our disappeared Gryllidae? We don't know...
Another missing resident is the common Bufo bufo and some of our other Anuran friends. Last spring, we encountered hundreds of their tadpoles in drying tire tracks. Many of which we believe to have matured and survived as we heard their croaks and groans earlier this year. Now, the areas where we had encountered them just one year ago are nearly and/or completely silent. The tire tracks are still there. They are wet. But, inexpicably they are uninhabited. Is it too late in the season? Or is there some other, more ominous reason? We hope to post video evidence of this soon, but lacking funds, we must ask for donations to do this. Otherwise, the evidence may never be posted.
We had previously posted our concerns about the anurans and bufo previously (in another venue...) and received some derogatory comments regarding that. But, we expected that. However, we did not expect a complete disappearance. Believing that the little creatures form the ecological foundation for the rest of the biosphere, we wonder if the next phase of disappearance is coming. We firmly believe that what happens to our other earthling neighbors, happens to us...

How Evolution Can Allow For Large Developmental Leaps


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163716.htm


Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090722/sc_livescience/strangehumansglowinvisiblelight;_ylt=AltqKv8tEQee4NHSatM8xE4PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNkMGptdnJuBGFzc2V0A2xpdmVzY2llbmNlLzIwMDkwNzIyL3N0cmFuZ2VodW1hbnNnbG93aW52aXNpYmxlbGlnaHQEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9oZ


Ultrasound performed on pregnant dolphin


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8161416.stm

Tursiops


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin

Tursiops truncatus (EOL Link)


http://www.eol.org/pages/129548


Wolf Reintroduction Proposed In Scottish Highland Test Case


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720134527.htm

Bangladesh rare leopard cub found


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8162981.stm

Neofelis nebulosa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clouded_Leopard

Neofelis nebulosa (IUCN Red List Link – Vulnerable)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/14519/0

Neofelis nebulosa (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/328675

Cod expert: Don't boost harvest yet

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/22/cod-recover-722.html

Gadus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadus

Sea Lamprey Embryos Dramatically Alter Genomes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163734.htm

Petromyzon marinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lamprey

Petromyzon marinus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2530

Return of the Giant Jellyfish

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6721081.ece

Echizen kurage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echizen_kurage

Swine flu vaccine trials start in Australia

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/22/swine-flu-vaccine.html

H1N1 Influenza Pandemic Modeling For Public Health Action

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720134227.htm

2009 flu pandemic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

H1N1 Deaths Double in Three Weeks

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/21/health/main5177820.shtml

Infection-Causing Amoeba May be Resistant to Multiple Contact Lens Solutions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721091841.htm

Acanthamoeba

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba

C. Difficile Spores Spread Superbug

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720134522.htm

Clostridium difficile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_difficile



Embryonic-like cells repair damaged mouse hearts

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre56j51m-us-heart-stemcell/

Pre-chewed Food Could Transmit HIV

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721163126.htm

Starve A Fever, Feed A Cold, Don't Be Stressed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163719.htm

Evidence Of Clovis-age Comets Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720190719.htm

Hunt hopes to find ancient trees
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Alaskan Algal Bloom & More for Sunday, July 20, 2009


Pair convicted in Namibia for filming seal hunt

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090717/sc_afp/namibiaenvironmentarrestseals;_ylt=Ag2wt32.x4G1F26bvL6.yxAPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTMzZGk1cDJmBGFzc2V0Ay9hZnAvMjAwOTA3MTcvc2NfYWZwL25hbWliaWFlbnZpcm9ubWVudGFycmVzdHNlYWxzBHBvcwMxMwRzZWMDeW5fc3ViY2F0X2xpc3QEc2xrA3BhaXJjb25

Cattle return to cliff-top woods

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8158156.stm

'Slow and steady' wins 114-pound (52-kilo) circus tortoise a week of freedom

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090718/K071806AU.html

Breeding success for aquarium's rare amphibians

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8157908.stm

Ambystoma mexicanum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambystoma_mexicanum

Ambystoma mexicanum (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/1095/0

Ambystoma mexicanum (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1019571

Shark attack victims fight for their attackers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090719/ts_alt_afp/environmentanimalssharksoffbeat;_ylt=AoyM3F.EqClmH9gmhXlvhKAPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTM2Yjc3cDN1BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDcxOS9lbnZpcm9ubWVudGFuaW1hbHNzaGFya3NvZmZiZWF0BHBvcwMxMQRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA

Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska (TIME magazine link)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090718/us_time/08599191151700

Algal bloom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_bloom

Why Winning Athletes Are Getting Bigger

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717090829.htm

Canadian swine flu vaccine set for October

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/17/health-minister-canada-swine-flu.html

Scientists could reduce the risk of allergic reactions to peanuts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8157941.stm

Peanut allergy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy

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Friday, July 17, 2009

WHO Loses H1N1 Count & Cure for MD? & More for Friday, July 17, 2009


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_dystrophy


Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes Via Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716201127.htm

Y Chromosome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Chromosome

DNA Not The Same In Every Cell Of Body

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131449.htm

DNA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA

Neanderthals were likely poised for extinction

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31948849/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Homo neanderthalensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_neanderthalensis

How Dachshunds Got Such Short Legs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716141146.htm

Dachshund

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachshund

Canis lupus familiaris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canis_lupus_familiaris

Canis lupus familiaris (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1228387

Tiny lizard falls like a feather

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8150000/8150333.stm

Holaspis guentheri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holaspis

Holaspis guentheri (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/793276

In sand, desert lizard swims like a snake

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31949660/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Scincus scincus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scincus_scincus

For fish, it’s the more the merrier

http://www.eol.org/pages/327553


Ecologist Brings Century-old Eggs To Life To Study Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716203205.htm

Ancient Microbes Helped Build Rock Structures

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716141221.htm

Stromatolite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite

Capturing CO2: Global Warming Fix From Microbes?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715101441.htm

‘Catching CO2 in a Bowl’ – Inorganic Chemistry

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic802454w

Arctic Sea Ice Images Derived From Classified Data Should Be Made Public, According To A New Report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715112033.htm

Major Arctic Sea-ice Formed Earlier Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131435.htm

Arctic Climate Under Greenhouse Conditions In The Late Cretaceous

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095422.htm

Summer Is Here And The Mercury Is Rising ... Literally

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715160446.htm

Organic Mercury

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_mercury#Safety

Waste From Textile Industry Transformed Into Rich Compost With Help Of Manure And Earthworms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090716093959.htm

How do you build a wind farm out at sea?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8151222.stm

Low carbon way 'to reshape lives'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8150919.stm

Solar Power: New SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production In 2010

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709205950.htm

Retailers miss plastic bag target

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8155057.stm

Baking Soda: For Cooking, Cleaning, And Kidney Health?
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Friday, May 22, 2009

BPA - Chances are its Inside of You and More for Friday, May 22, 2009

* Sarcophilus harrisii image licensed under Creative Commons by nicolas.boullosa





Whaling Commission head says Japan must compromise

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090521/wl_asia_afp/usjapanwhaling;_ylt=AuzS6VsELp9oqK4NaND1x6wPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJscjR2Nmt2BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDUyMS91c2phcGFud2hhbGluZwRwb3MDMTUEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawN3aGFsaW5nY29tbWk-

 *Tasmanian devils now endangered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8062840.stm

Sarcophilus harrisii

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil

Rare deer reveals signs of life

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8061000/8061899.stm

Rusa alfredi IUCN Red List

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/4273

Cervus alfredi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visayan_spotted_deer

The UK's endangered dormice population showing signs of a possible recovery

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8062757.stm

Muscardinus avellanarius (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/13992/0

Muscardinus avellanarius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Dormouse

Internet followers of eagle cam watch helplessly as eaglet dies in B.C. nest

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/21/bc-trapped-eaglet-dies.html

Habitat loss 'hitting shellfish'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8061532.stm



Unusually Large Family Of Green Fluorescent Proteins Discovered In Marine Creature

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161325.htm

Cephalochordata

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphioxus

Bumblebee flight is not quite in sync

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30875114/

Bombus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus

Heat-tolerant Coral Reefs Discovered: May Survive Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520100515.htm

Zooxanthellae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooxanthellae

Genetic Pathway Responsible For Much Of Plant Growth Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520100511.htm

Beneficial Plant 'Spillover' Effect Seen From Landscape Corridors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151441.htm

Landscape Ecology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_ecology

New Species of Yeast Discovered in Amazon Jungle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521084717.htm

Fundamental Mechanism For Cell Organization Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141204.htm

Swine flu will keep spreading globally: WHO chief

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/22/swine-flu-who.html

Swine flu genes circulated undetected for years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30886851/

CDC to swimmers: Don't pee in the pool!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/22/pools.urinate.hygiene/index.html

CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/


Face Protection Effective In Preventing The Spread Of Influenza, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161332.htm

New Vaccine Strategy Might Offer Protection Against Pandemic Influenza Strains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518120954.htm

Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172045.htm

Safe For Passengers With Lung Disease To Travel By Air, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519075418.htm

Cigarette companies lose appeal in landmark ruling

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1075254



Anti-inflammatory Effect Of 'Rotten Eggs' Gas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521084542.htm

Hydrogen Sulfide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_Sulfide

Sick Of The Same Old Thing? Researcher Finds Satiation Solution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134713.htm

Note: If you search for “Satiety” on the Wikipedia, the response is: Cholecystokinin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiety

UK 'worst electrical recycler'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8063115.stm

Mars' Windy, Wet And Wild Past

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521161526.htm

Mars probes unravel watery mysteries

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30870498/
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

How the Late Heavy Bombardment Promoted Life in the Hadean and More for Thursday, May 21, 2009

Asteroid May Have Enhanced Early Life On Earth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140403.htm

Study turns back clock on origins of life on Earth

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5px-us-asteroids/

Late Heavy Bombardment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment

Hadean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean_eon

Arsenic In Irrigation Water Is Transferred To Crops

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121417.htm

Swine Flu Risk Linked To Arsenic Exposure

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151436.htm

Arsenic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic

H1N1 flu must be global before Phase 6: WHO chief

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54k1wq-us-flu-who-pandemic/

Computer Simulation Captures Immune Response To Flu

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518111729.htm

Swine Flu And Other New Infectious Diseases -- What's The Risk?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519104111.htm

Orangutans seen eating own babies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8058000/8058365.stm

Pongo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongo

Marine Mammals' Brains Exposed To Hazardous Cocktail Of Pesticides Including DDT, PCBs, Brominated Flame Retardants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520122227.htm

Rare white elephant seal caught on camera in the sub-Antarctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8059000/8059966.stm

Mirounga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_seal

Bird Songs Change With The Landscape

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114710.htm

Magnets in ant antennae work as internal GPS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30852573/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Midge Bones In Lake Sediments Reveal Fish History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181248.htm

Nematocera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge

Snail Venoms Reflect Reduced Competition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161330.htm

Historical Anecdote Of Jordan's Red Soils May Offer New Antibiotic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518222202.htm

Protein From Algae Shows Promise For Stopping SARS

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520114659.htm

Agricultural Aromatherapy: Lavender Oil As Natural Herbicide

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514083921.htm

Lavandula

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender

Neurons 'Mirror' The Attention Of Others

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518172451.htm

'Junk' DNA Has Important Role, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140408.htm

Plastic That Grows On Trees

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134837.htm

Non-wovens As Scaffolds For Artificial Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091520.htm

Mars may have been both cold and wet

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54j5e2-us-mars-freezing/

Mars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
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