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The Digestive System
biology, digestive, system, systems saved by: cjanze more details ...
http://www.teachnet.ie/farmnet/Digestive.htm
taxonomy comparative biology - Google Search
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=ByX&client=opera&rls=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=resu...
Muscle Atlas — Musculoskeletal Radiology — UW Radiology
anatomy, biology, images, research, science saved by: theleafs more details ...
http://www.rad.washington.edu/academics/academic-sections/msk/muscle-atlas
Health Directory, Fitness, Beauty, Nutrition, Weight Loss
HeavyHealth.com provides health links & resources related to health insurance, animal health, beauty, dentistry, diseases & conditions, environmental health, fitness, long term care, medi...
addiction, beauty, biochemistry, biology, cancer, cell, child, conditions, dental, dentists, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.heavyhealth.com
e-Species
biology, search saved by: drburix02 more details ...
http://especies.infobio.net/index.htm
Science Web Directory, Technology, Chemistry, Biotechnology and Environment
Science6.com offers links to science, biotechnology, physics and astronomy, chemistry, environment ,ecology, technology, science resources, social sciences, mechanical engineering, earth ...
aerospace, agriculture, aquaculture, astrophysics, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, directory, ecology, electronics, More... saved by: louis23186 more details ...
http://www.science6.com
Main Page - Proteopedia
The collaborative, 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules.
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http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Cook'n Newsletter
article, biology, food, fruit, gardening, guide, reference, shopping, useful saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://www.dvo.com/newsletter/monthly/2000/july/freshfruit.html
Clipmark: , diversity
Glasswing Butterfly(Greta Oto) is a brush-footed butterfly where its wings are transparent. The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like glass. They are found in the range which e...
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http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/0FC5069F-7404-4DEF-BF51-CFBC3B03CCB8
, diversity
Glasswing Butterfly(Greta Oto) is a brush-footed butterfly where its wings are transparent. The tissue between the veins of its wings looks like glass. They are found in the range which e...
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http://populaceplace.com/index.php?ind=gallery&op=foto_show&ida=343
Microscope Imaging Station
biology, education, photography, science saved by: theleafs more details ...
http://www.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station
Surviving: The Body of Evidence
anthropology, biology, evolution, history, science saved by: theleafs more details ...
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/survivingexhibit/index.html
Shark pictures show amazing killing display - Telegraph
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=5HBZ54GRXJJJ1QFIQMGCFFOAVCBQUIV0?xml=...
A scientist and a mother on plastic baby bottles
Ursinus College biologist Rebecca Roberts writing on the presence of the compound bisphenol-A in many plastic products for babies. An excellent, reflective article on the dilemmas involve...
biology, health, parenting, plastic, safety, science, ursinus saved by: nbr more details ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1914410
Biology Goes Open Source - Forbes.com
0207, biology, genetics, innovationascendante, opensource, research saved by: skyle more details ...
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.htm...
Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions - life - 16 April 2008 - New Scientist
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http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn13620?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn13620
Culture Speeds Up Human Evolution: Scientific American
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=culture-speeds-up-human-evolution
Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms - washingtonpost.com
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/16/AR2007121601900.html
arXiv.org e-Print archive
An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
biology, computerscience, education, mathematics, openaccess, paper, papers, physics, reference, research, More... saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://arxiv.org
Personal Genome Project
Volunteers from the general public working together with researchers to advance personal genomics.
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http://www.personalgenomes.org
Biomimicry Guild - Innovation Consultancy for Bio-Inspired Design
The only innovation company in the world to use a deep knowledge of biological adaptations to help designers, engineers, architects, and business leaders solve design and engineering chal...
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http://www.biomimicryguild.com
Biomimicry Institute - Home
A not-for-profit organization whose mission is to naturalize biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human system...
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http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org
Technology Review: Ultrastrong Carbon-Nanotube Muscles
By spinning carbon nanotubes into yarn a fraction of the width of a human hair, researchers have developed artificial muscles that exert 100 times the force, per area, of natural muscle.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/17872
The dummy's guide to engineering genes
Along with famed MIT computer engineer Tom Knight, Endy is trying to bury the DNA and its nucleotides down the same deep hole that swallowed the 1s and 0s we users never have to thinks ab...
article, biology, genetics, programming saved by: meryn more details ...
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/the_dummys_guid.html
BBC NEWS | Health | Dominant men 'smell attractive'
Women subconsciously prefer the aroma of dominant men when they are at the most fertile stage of the menstrual cycle, research suggests.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4653139.stm
BBC NEWS | Health | Woman's scent can lure or repel
A woman's body odour can help her attract men when she is at her most fertile and repel them when she is not.
article, biology, evolution, sexuality saved by: meryn more details ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4614842.stm
Paul H. Rubin - Evolution, Immigration and Trade - washingtonpost.com
As products of evolution, humans cannot help but be born with certain biases. But we are not condemned to this evolutionary programming; we can identify the biases and recognize when they...
anthropology, article, biology, economics, evolution, immigration, politics, psychology, trade saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/07/AR2007050700755.html
Hormone levels predict attractiveness of women - New Scientist
Feminine beauty, the subject of philosophical and artistic musings for millennia, can be predicted by something as basic as hormones.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8251
Evolutionary psychology | Sex, shopping and thinking pink | Economist.com
The more feminine a brain was, regardless of the body it inhabited, the more it liked red and pink.
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http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9682588
Competition, Loss Of Selfishness Mark Shift To Supersociety
a pair of researchers from Cornell University and Arizona State University propose a model, based on tug-of-war theory, that may explain the selection pressures that mark the evolutionary...
altruism, article, biology, competition, cooperation, evolution, sociology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070611094002.htm
Dan Agin: Goodbye Selfish-Gene: A New Upheaval in the Science of Human Behavior
Group selection was mistakenly cast aside during previous decades, that the evidence for group selection is too strong to be ignored, and that the current ideas about how evolution works ...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-agin/goodbye-selfishgene-a-n_b_71019.html
Monkeys "Go on Strike" When They Sense Unfairness
In recent tests designed to assess monkeys' sense of fairness, a group of brown capuchin monkeys "went on strike" and refused to perform routine tasks when they saw others receiving great...
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071113-monkeys.html
Humans are still evolving - and it's happening faster than ever | Science | The Guardian
The widespread assumption that human evolution has slowed down because it's easier to live and we've conquered nature is absolutely not true. We didn't conquer nature, we changed it in wa...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/dec/11/evolution
The Real Story on Gay Genes | Sex & Gender | DISCOVER Magazine
Homing in on the science of homosexuality—and sexuality itself.
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http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jun/born-gay
Raw Data: Do Brothers Make You Gay? | Sex & Reproduction | DISCOVER Magazine
According to Bogaert, every older brother increases the probability that a man is homosexual by 33 percent. The average estimate of the base rate of male homosexuality is around 4 percent...
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http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/gaybrothers
Sex Steroids and Human Behavior: Prenatal Androgen Exposure and Sex-Typical Play Behavior in Children
These findings suggest that androgen during early development influences childhood play behavior in humans at least in part by altering brain development.
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http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/1007/1/272
Sex hormone-binding globulin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a glycoprotein that binds to sex hormones, specifically testosterone and estradiol.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_hormone_binding_globulin
Female Hormone Key to Male Brain: Scientific American
In primates, including humans, androgen--not estrogen--plays the key role in making men's brains masculine and AFP does not bind to estrogens. But the appropriately named sex hormone bind...
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0004703D-0A4A-13BB-899183414B7F4945&...
Alpha-fetoprotein protects the developing female mouse brain from masculinization and defeminization by estrogens
These results clearly demonstrate that prenatal estrogens masculinize and defeminize the brain and that AFP protects the female brain from these effects of estrogens.
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http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17462602
Alpha-fetoprotein protects the developing female brain from estrogens
These results clearly demonstrate that the principal action of prenatal estrogen exposure is to defeminize the brain and that AFP normally binds estradiol circulating in the female fetus ...
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http://www.endocrine-abstracts.org/ea/0014/ea0014S14.1.htm
The Role of Estrogen in Sexual Differentiation
Ovarian hormones, especially estrogen, contribute to the sexual differentiation process in ways comparable to testosterones masculinization effects.
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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper3/deCastro3.html
Sex Determination and Behaviors
It is thought that sex hormones may act during the fetal or neonatal stage of a mammal's life to organize the nervous system in a sex-specific manner, and that during adult life, the same...
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=dbio.box.4131
Sperm cells created from female embryo - Telegraph
Sperm cells have been created from a female human embryo in a remarkable breakthrough that suggests it may be possible for lesbian couples to have their own biological children.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/01/31/scisper...
Researchers successfully simulate photosynthesis and design a better leaf
The changes suggested in the model might undermine the survival of a plant living in the wild, he said, “but our analyses suggest they will be viable in the farmer’s field.”
2007, article, biology, conversion, energy, evolution, photosynthesis saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/07/1109photosynthesis.html
Technology Review: Making Memories
A new strain of genetically engineered mice has allowed researchers to pinpoint, for the first time, the precise cellular connections that form as a memory is created.
2008, article, biology, learning, memory, neuroscience, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20320
Homosexuality and finger length
Homosexual men without older brothers have 2D:4D ratios indistinguishable from heterosexual eldest sons, indicating that factors other than fetal androgen (such as genetic influences8, 9)...
2000, biology, homosexuality, paper saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/readings/homofinger/homo_finger.html
BBC NEWS | Health | Finger length 'key to aggression'
Men with the shortest index fingers scored higher on measures of physical aggression than those with longer index fingers, but the study's findings did not apply to women.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4314209.stm