Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Evolution of the Impenetrable American Bedbug

Posted on 27 March 2013 by mmmbitesizescience

Most of us are quite content to share our beds with a partner or a kitty, but are less inclined to extend the same warm welcome to the common bedbug, Cimex lectularius. These parasitic insects, which feed exclusively on blood, … Continue reading →

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Making Pretty, Meaty, Friendly Animals (on Scientific American)

Posted on 21 March 2013 by mmmbitesizescience

Head on over to Scientific American to read our second guest blog post!

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Converting weeds into flowers: artificial stem cells create a blood supply for bioengineered organs

Posted on 20 March 2013 by mmmbitesizescience

Regenerating the human body by growing whole new organs or patching up damaged ones from just a few cells scraped from your own tissues is a fascinating area of science known as bioengineering. Every living cell in such an organ … Continue reading →

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Ivory DNA sequencing tracks elephant poaching hotspots

Posted on 8 March 2013 by mmmbitesizescience

The illicit trade in elephant ivory has been a ridiculous problem since the 1980’s, when Asian and African elephants were decimated to such a level that they made it onto Appendix One (“most endangered species”) of CITES. While all trade … Continue reading →

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