“Damage from fire minimal at CU-Boulder biology building, official says - Colorado Daily” plus 3 more |
- Damage from fire minimal at CU-Boulder biology building, official says - Colorado Daily
- Bad Biology Hits DVD! - DREAD CENTRAL.COM
- Bad Biology Finally Arrives on DVD - Horror Yearkbook
- Immune defense for the birds - Deseret News
| Damage from fire minimal at CU-Boulder biology building, official says - Colorado Daily Posted: 05 Jan 2010 07:33 PM PST University of Colorado police and Boulder firefighters responded to a report of a fire in the Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Building on the University of Colorado campus on Tuesday afternoon. CU spokesman Peter Caughey said CU police received a report of a fire at 3:18 p.m. Tuesday. Boulder Fire Duty Battalion Chief Mark Johnson said the incident turned out to be a piece of plastic that melted because it was too close to an autoclave, a machine that uses pressurized steam to sterlize instruments. It does not appear it actually caught fire, he said, though it generated a noxious odor of burning plastic. Caughey said he had reports there was a small fire that was contained to room A106. It was extinguished with a fire extinguisher. The building was evacuated, but the no one was injured, Caughey said. Damage from the fire was minimal, Caughey said. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Bad Biology Hits DVD! - DREAD CENTRAL.COM Posted: 05 Jan 2010 11:26 AM PST Fans have long been awaiting the arrival of Frank Henelotter's latest film, Bad Biology. Finally the flick is getting set to hit home video and the best part? You'll be able to get your hands on it in just a couple of short weeks! Media Blasters, Inc and Fever Dreams, LLC will be distributing the film on special edition DVD January 26th! Bad Biology marks Henelotter's (Basket Case, Frankenhooker, Brain Damage) return to filmmaking after more than 16 years! Check out the synopsis and the EXTREMELY NOT SAFE FOR WORK trailer for the movie below. Synopsis Got news? Click here to submit it! Show us your biology in the Dread Central forums! Submitted by Uncle Creepy on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 3:31pm. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Bad Biology Finally Arrives on DVD - Horror Yearkbook Posted: 05 Jan 2010 09:39 AM PST It has been a long wait for horror fans but Frank Henenlotter's latest film, Bad Biology, finally arrives on DVD January 26th. This is Henenlotter's first movie in over 16 years! Pre-order Bad Biology here Driven by biological excess, Bad Biology is about a young woman (Charlee Danielson) and man's (Anthony Sneed) search for their own perverse sexual fulfillment, unaware of each other's existence. One day, due to an unfortunate quirk of destiny, they cross paths! The highly volatile physical and mental bonding of these two very unusual human beings (a polite term for 'freaks') spirals toward an explosive and ultimately over-the-top sexual experience for both them and viewers alike! When the smoke clears, the end result is a truly messy, god-awful love story that will long be remembered. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Immune defense for the birds - Deseret News Posted: 05 Jan 2010 10:46 PM PST Humans can declare what they bring from one country to another, but birds are another story. Because they are such avid travelers, it is difficult to know what parasites various species of birds pick up, but on heavily populated islands in the world, it is evident that unfamiliar diseases are killing them off. In order to determine the effect of such parasitic invasions, University of Utah biologists went to the Galapagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador, to find large populations of finches to study. The bird is the same species that Charles Darwin observed in the 1830s to determine his evolutionary theory. There are 15 species of finches in the Galapagos, all evolving from one common ancestor. U. biology professor Dale Clayton said the finches "figured prominently" in Darwin's theory about how new species survive. Now, they play an even more critical role in "survival of the fittest." The findings of the U. study — published online Wednesday in PLoS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science — reveal that when a host species is invaded by parasitic organisms, defense systems can somehow evolve to fight off infection and eventual death. The question remains whether that immunity can increase fast enough to ward off destruction of the species. The U. scientists discovered that the finches in the Galapagos have shown a propensity for developing antibodies that fight off nest flies and a specific pox virus, both of which have led to death in the species in other areas. The study is significant because "these finches are icons of evolution, and the icons are in danger of extinction," Clayton said. "Wild species can respond to invasive parasites with which they have no history of association," he said of the evolutionary behavior. "The immune system has been activated." The Galapagos is "the most famous group of islands that hasn't had any native birds go extinct yet," Clayton said. Native species on Hawaii, for example, he said, "have gone extinct because of humans," who introduced mosquitoes with malaria as well as predators such as cats and rats, and who destroyed habitat and hunted birds for feathers. "It's what we call in evolutionary biology an arms race between the host and the parasite," he said. Current research aims to determine whether "the birds are able to fight back," Clayton said. "Do they have defenses, or have they just been blindsided because they have no evolutionary history with these parasites?" U. biologist Jen Koop, who helped with the study, will continue to study the birds to determine whether the finches' immune response helps them or makes them feel ill and less likely to mate, feed chicks, watch for predators and defend territory. Such research is necessary because the nest flies could lead to rapid extinction of bird species, not just finches, in the Galapagos. "Species have long histories of evolving together," Clayton said. "This can lead to a balance. The parasites use hosts but don't drive them extinct because the hosts fight back. But if you pick up a parasite from one spot on Earth and drop it on another spot — something people are doing frequently — then the host animal may not have a chance." The U. biologist said the growing number of parasites makes invasion a worldwide problem. e-mail: wleonard@desnews.com Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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