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Apr. 4, 2013 — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

A new team led by biologist Andrew Casper will expand Shedd Aquarium's research of animals that live in local waterways — and how to protect them.

So Anderson, Seattle's lead invertebrate biologist, began to wonder: If keepers recognize octopuses as individuals, how much difference is there among individual octopuses?

«The findings have implications for how we understand animal evolution,» said Scripps marine biologist Greg Rouse, the lead author of the study.

«Gene sequencing has opened a huge door to how complex these communities are,» says Patrick Seed, a Duke pediatrician specializing in infectious disease, who with biologist Rob Jackson is a lead investigator of the premature infant study.

The next hurdle becomes how to get these different simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent of Long's and Zhu's.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

«Pancreatic cancer develops from these lesions, so if we understand how these lesions come about, we may be able to stop the cancer train altogether,» says the study's lead investigator, Peter Storz, Ph.D., a cancer biologist.

A group led by Piero Carninci, a biologist at Omics, looked at how genetic elements known as retrotransposons scattered through genomes affect the synthesis of RNA.

The evolutionary biologist and lead singer for the punk rock band Bad Religion explains why there are no good songs about science and how evolution can be a guide to life

A model of a malaria - infected red blood cell may lead to better ways to treat malaria, according to a team of engineers and molecular biologists who investigated how this parasite infection causes the red blood cells to stiffen.

In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature — On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing an elegantly simple solution to a puzzle that has taxed biologists for centuries: how complex branching patterns of tissues arise.

A research team led by a biologist and a mathematical biologist from Washington State University is using special statistical methods to study how traits of biological organisms change.

The study — led by IU biologist David M. Kehoe and conducted by Joseph E. Sanfilippo, IU Ph.D. student, and Animesh Shukla, former IU Ph.D. student, in collaboration with researchers in the United States and France — is the first to show how a process that improves light capture in marine cyanobacteria is regulated.

Travis Belote, a biologist and research ecologist who works in the Northern Rockies office of The Wilderness Society in Bozeman, Montana, led a team of scientists in a recent study to help understand how the nation's various ecosystems are coping with climate change.