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It used to be standard practice to shave the area around the incision before surgery, as it was thought that hair harbored bacteria that would cause wound infection. Beginning in…
It used to be standard practice to shave the area around the incision before surgery, as it was thought that hair harbored bacteria that would cause wound infection. Beginning in…
The Technology-Entertainment-Design (TED) conference that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life and connect it with hi-techsters prepared a 4-minute, 13 MB video [download it here] that both reports on progress…
For almost 30 years, thanks to Perrin Meyer, Jason Yung, David Burg, and now Albert Strusberg, we have developed and maintained a software package for analyzing logistic wavelets and logistic…
Leishmaniasis is a chronic parasitic infection caused by various Leishmania species, kinetoplast protozoans related to Trypanosoma (the latter includes agents of African sleeping sickness and Chagas disease, suggested as a…
PHE Guest Investigator David Thaler and RU colleague Tom Sakmar publish open access in BMC Infectious Diseases 21, Article #601 (2021) ‘Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built…
Most DNA barcode research to date analyzes multicellular animals, but why stop there? Unicellular eukaryotes or “protists” probably comprise most of Earth’s biomass and encompass more genetic diversity than all…
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times posts a blog Dot Earth: Can people Have Meat and a planet, Too? that refers to our ideas and those of our mentor…
Russian writer Anton Chekhov anticipated 21st century environmental concerns about forests and climate (in an exchange in the first act) Â of his 1899 play Uncle Vanya….
…look forward to seeing how this scientific “newsstand” develops. In June, PLoS ONE received an impact rating of 4.351, placing it in the top 25% percentile of biology journals, making…
Kate Stoeckle’s 2008 high school DNA barcoding project, dubbed “Sushi-gate“, is featured in the latest edition of McGraw-Hill textbook, Biology. Here is the excerpt from the book….