Md. Researchers Growing Blue Crabs in Lab
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More than 1,600 wriggling blue crabs, so young that their shells are still soft and see-through, are taken from gurgling tanks and dropped one at a time into coolers filled with nets. Minutes later, they are loaded onto trucks, driven to two tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay and dropped into the water.
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A survey by academics at the University of Bath, UK, has revealed that male scientists are good at research because they have the hormone levels of women and long index fingers.
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By Steve Connor  A census of ocean life has revealed a treasure chest of living jewels ranging from a mighty microbe as big as a fingernail to a furry crab and a giant lobster.
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On a cloudy day in  the Chukchi Sea near Alaska's northwestern coast, two marine  biologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological  Institute pulled up a small crab that could be proof the Arctic  is growing warmer.
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A $156 million grant for DNA sequencing at the Washington University School of Medicine is part of an effort to unlock the mystery of the origins of cancer within the body, university officials said Monday.
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Several crabs, shrimp, sea stars, and other marine species had likely never been seen until scientists went exploring in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this fall.
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QUABBIN RESERVOIR, Mass. Ten years ago, an assistant from a microbiology laboratory took a hike near the shore of the vast Quabbin Reservoir, which supplies water to Boston. At one point, he crouched alongside a brook in the shade of towering hemlock trees, dug up some moist dirt, put it in a jar...
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Two summers spent in the company of forest mice - anesthetizing, vaccinating and reviving the critters with apple slices - is paying off for an MSU researcher.
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By Craig Medred, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 3--How the dangerous pathogen Myxobolus cerebralis got into Alaska's fisheries is something scientists may never know.
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Viruses sourced from the River Cam in Cambridge may help scientists develop treatments for superbugs, such as MRSA.
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Furry crabs, heat-resistant shrimps, and a giant species of lobster are among this year's top discoveries from the Census of Marine Life ocean survey.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Associated Press  Scientists discover exotic creatures more mysterious than most can imagine.   WASHINGTON -- Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined.
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Lefty fiddler crabs appeared less likely to fight, and less likely to win if they did, new research suggests.
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Researchers working off coastal Georgia have discovered what could be three new species of bottom-dwelling creatures known as sea squirts.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--The Miami Blue butterfly, just 50 pairs of fluttering wings from extinction three years ago, breeds up a storm these days.   So far, the butterfly boom has been confined to a laboratory in Gainesville.
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Researchers at Idaho State University have received a grant to develop a food pellet vaccine for hatchery rainbow that, if successful, could lead to new ways to vaccinate livestock and even humans.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.