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(University of Utah) When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage.

But University of Utah biologists discovered how those cells can evade suicide and start down the path to cancer.

The new study of fruit flies is the first to show in animals that losing just one telomere -- the end of a chromosome -- can lead to many abnormalities in a cell's chromosomes.

Might temperature affect fall colors in trees, with the warming climate muting them?

Vermont biologists are testing trees to find out.

(Imperial College London) The level of nutrients in soil determines how many different kinds of plants and trees can thrive in an ecosystem, according to new research published by biologists and mathematicians today in Nature.

(National Science Foundation) Biologists and mathematicians from around the world will take part in a new institute dedicated to bringing top researchers together to find creative solutions to pressing problems in both scientific fields.

Scientists have found that a diatom can reduce the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and that the same diatom can reduce its toxicity to other algae as well.

The ostentatious, sometimes bizarre qualities that improve a creature's chances of finding a mate may also drive the reproductive separation of populations and the evolution of new species, say two Indiana University Bloomington biologists.

Individual cells in a population of bacteria can sacrifice their lives for others to achieve a greater common good.

Biologists have described a new biological concept in which self-sacrifice and self-destruction play an important role.

Endangered black-footed ferrets aren't exactly lining up to be stuck with a vaccine, but in an effort to help control an extensive outbreak of plague in South Dakota, some of the ferrets are getting dosed with a vaccine given by biologists.

Black-footed ferrets are one of the rarest mammals in North America. The plague is transmitted from animals to humans by bites of infected fleas, but it can be cured with antibiotics if treatment is prompt.

Biologists have uncovered a fascinating new insight into the unseen side of plant biology - the root. Although less visible than shoots, leaves and flowers, plant roots are critical to our lives.

They provide the crops we eat with water, nutrients, a firm anchor and a place to store food.

A large 3-D model of the Blue Tongue virus has been created by WMG engineering researchers at the University of Warwick that will help biologists devise new ways to combat the virus, and protect millions of livestock from infection.

The model is 5,200,000 times the size of the real thing.