Newly created cancer stem cells could aid breast cancer research
...st 13, 2007) In some ways, certain tumors resemble bee colonies, says pathologist Tan Ince. Each cancer cell in the tumor plays a specific role, and just a fraction of the cells serve as queens, possessing the unique ability to maintain themselves in an unspecialized state and seed new tumors. These cell...Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing
...d his co-authors were able to document details of bee social behavior that fundamentally confirm the hyp...ured --we have centralized systems of control. But bee colony systems of control are very different they are totally de-centralized. Schneiders lab stud...Fire ants are emerging nuisance for Virginians
..., Miller explained that people who are allergic to bee stings might also have severe reactions to fire ant stings. In Virginia, fire ants have only been found in urban areas and are not currently an issue for the agricultural industry. In other states, however, RIFAs pose a threat to both crops and li...Biting discovery: MU entomologist finds host of new aquatic insect species in Thailand
... bite. "It's much, much worse than a bee or wasp sting," said Robert Sites, an entomologist in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "It's actually not a sting; it's a bite. You'll be thinking about it a half hour or an hour. I was bi...Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest
...rom the hive entrance allows them to key in on the bee colonies without bees responding to their attack," the researchers report. Complicating the issue is the yeast that grows in the hives. The researchers found that this yeast only produced IPA when it grew on pollen. Even pollen substitute, a food som...Researchers at Illinois explore queen bee longevity
The queen honey bee is genetically identical to the workers in her hiv...ion until later in life live longer. But the queen bee has her cake and eats it too. Shes an egg-laying machine. She lays 2,000 eggs a day and yet lives 10...Breathing easy: When it comes to oxygen, a bug's life is full of it
...eir spiracles. If you compare Lance Armstrong, the bee and the hummingbird, the bee is the champion of oxygen delivery," he said. But at the same time, insects can survive low levels o......en times the quanity of nectar provided by typical bee flowers....Honey bee researcher wins National Research Initiative Discovery Award
...h grant money. Her research centers around honey bee pheromones and their effects on individual bees an...ertain animals. Pankiw teaches a course on honey bee biology in the department of entomology at Texas A&M. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees i...Research upsetting some notions about honey bees
...ed on information from the recently released honey bee genome, has toppled some long-held beliefs about the honey bee that colonized Europe and the U.S. According to research published recently in Science, an internat...Queen bee promiscuity boosts hive health
...ores of the highly virulent bacterium that infects bee larvae and causes the disease American Foulbrood. Sure enough, the more genetically diverse colonies derived from multiple fathers were significantly less affected by the disease several months later. The findings have implications for beekeepers, wh...Two studies on bee evolution reveal surprises
The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber -- perhaps the oldest bee ever found -- "pushes the bee fossil record back about 35 million years," according to Bryan Danfort...Detecting explosives with honeybees
...e developed a method for training the common honey bee to detect the explosives used in bombs. Based on knowledge of bee biology, the new techniques could become a leading tool in the fight against the use of improvised e...NHGRI funds large-scale sequencing centers
...ng the mouse, chimpanzee, chicken, dog, rat, honey bee and sea urchin. This has provided researchers with a powerful tool for understanding the structure and function of the human genome. For instance, DNA sequences that are shared, or conserved, between humans and another species may be essential for tu...Michigan State researcher traces the evolution of honey bee gender
...ene transmission to the next generation of several bee species, according to Michigan State University re...red ancestor of the European and three Asian honey bee species. In humans, sex is determined by the combination of sex-determining chromosomes one has. ...Bee genome information housed at Texas A&M University
...iversity offered to house the data from the honey bee genome sequencing project at Baylor College of Med... bee, she said. Baylor's findings from the honey bee genome sequencing were published today in Nature. Baylor took the lead on the sequencing in 2003, wi...Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters
...t conservation of native plant communities. Best bee practices Because there are many bee behaviors, the task isn't simple, but with tedious scrutiny it is documentable. "Bumblebees definit...Looking to a new era in bee research
...itute, is expected to usher in a bright new era of bee research, benefiting agriculture, biological resea... provide new insights into diverse topics in honey bee biology, including neurobiology and the process of caste determination, which results in reproductiv...New genetic analysis forces re-draw of insect family tree
...h coincides with Nature's publication of the honey bee genome sequence (also Thursday 26 October 2006). ...x mori), flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), honey bee (Apis mellifera) and sibling parasitic wasp species (Nasonia vitripennis and Nasonia giraulti). T...Insights into honey bee sex gene could bring sweet success in breeding
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---What makes a bee a he or a she? Three years ago, scientists pinpo.... 26, coinciding with the publication of the honey bee genome sequence in the journal Nature. Scientists have long known that in bees---as well as wasps, ...