A team from Duke University conducted an experiment on monkeys. They gave both monkeys oxytocin, “the love hormone”. The researchers had the monkeys by each other and had a screen with symbols representing 3 actions: rewarding itself, rewarding its neighbor, and rewarding no one. These symbols would come on to the screen two at a [...]
Entries from January 8th, 2012
Jellyfish DNA Used to Detect Pathogens
January 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Biology
Engineers have developed genetically engineered biosensors to detect harmful bacteria and viruses in the air. At MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory the CANARY sensor was created. The CANARY sensor used jelly fish DNA and high voltage electrical charge. A biologist combined jellyfish DNA and mouse cells. The jellyfish DNA went inside the cells resulting in the mouse [...]
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Begging Whale Sharks
January 8th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Biology
Whale sharks begging for food in the central Philippines have sparked a debate on whether feeding the giant fish may ultimately be hurting the creatures, officials said on Saturday. Fishermen in Oslob in the central resort island of Cebu have been feeding whale sharks with baby shrimp since the 1980s and now use this feeding [...]
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