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Category: Biology

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Flashlight Fish and their Glow-In-The-Dark Friends

Posted on March 20, 2017June 25, 2025 by Gina Misra

Animals are unable to tell us why they do the things they do, and curious scientists often want to find out. They set up experiments to see…

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    Bacteria-Powered Battery Helps Remove Lake Pollution

    Posted on March 7, 2017June 25, 2025 by Gina Misra

    Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…

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      Bacterial Cell Not as Simple as Previously Thought

      Posted on March 1, 2017June 25, 2025 by Gina Misra

      When we first learn about cells in biology, we are taught that bacterial cells are simple, and animal and plant cells are more complex.…

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        Short, Tall, or Average: It’s in Your DNA

        Posted on February 12, 2017June 24, 2025 by Gina Misra

        Genes are bundles of DNA that exist in your cells that affect how you look, grow, and age. Since the human genome was fully decoded in the…

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          Growing plants with colored light changes their nutrient content

          Posted on January 23, 2017June 25, 2025 by Gina Misra

          Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…

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            Grow High-Tunnel Lettuce Year Round on Fish Waste

            Posted on January 12, 2017June 25, 2025 by Gina Misra

            A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…

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              Resurrecting Ancient Proteins and Simulating Evolution in the Lab

              Posted on April 19, 2016October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

              How does a cell stay alive? How do molecules in a cell “know” how to react with one another? Does this chemistry become more…

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                Computer techniques allow scientists to understand how bacteria work together

                Posted on August 20, 2015June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

                Single celled prokaryotic microbes, such as bacteria and archaea, control almost every aspect of our daily lives, from our individual health…

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                  An Expedition to Collect Fish in Africa for a Gene Archive

                  Posted on August 20, 2015June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

                  It was no ordinary fishing trip. In May 2011, Denis Tweddle, a research associate of the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity…

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                    Expedition to find rare pipefish in Queensland Australia

                    Posted on May 16, 2015June 25, 2025 by Sciworthy

                    My research interests are centered on the evolutionary relationships among species of seahorse and pipefish in the family Syngnathidae…

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