Biology
It's Gray Whale Season!
It’s gray whale season. As you gaze out across the Pacific, you may see one.
Post on Jan 24, 2011 by Jennifer Skene
15 Months Later, Rediscovered San Francisco Plant Thrives
Fifteen months after a native plant thought to be extinct was rediscovered in San Francisco, local botanists have succeeded in growing it and are making plans to plant it out in the wild.
Post on Jan 19, 2011 by Gabriela Quirós
Science on the SPOT: Restoring San Francisco's Lost Manzanita
QUEST explores how the San Francisco Botanical Garden is toiling to bring one of the city's rarest native plants, the Franciscana manzanita, back from the brink of extinction.
Video on Jan 19, 2011 by Gabriela Quirós from QUEST Northern California
Learning About Life Through Real-Time Biotic Video Games
Imagine a world where games could influence the actions of others. A team at Stanford has taken the first step towards creating biotic games.
Post on Jan 18, 2011 by Laura Khalil
Meet Our Newest Relative
Scientists identified a new human relative just using DNA from a fossilized finger. Using this DNA they showed more non Homo sapien DNA in modern humans. First Neanderthals, now Denisovans. Who knows what DNA we'll find next.
Post on Jan 17, 2011 by Dr. Barry Starr
Rediscovering Extinct Plants
This week, QUEST’s Science on the SPOT video will feature the Franciscan manzanita, a plant thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in San Francisco’s Presidio in 2009.
Post on Jan 12, 2011 by Jennifer Skene
Piled Higher and Deeper
People with doctorate degrees are piling up while waiting for their dream (or any research) job. This is at the back of my mind most days since I work with graduate students.
Post on Jan 03, 2011 by Dr. Barry Starr
Mistletoe: Friend or Foe?
Have you been hanging out under the mistletoe at holiday parties, hoping for a kiss? Well, that mistletoe is more than a Christmas kissing custom. It’s a parasite that can harm trees—and a potential treatment for cancer.
Post on Dec 20, 2010 by Jennifer Skene
California's Redwoods Face Climate Change
After a century of logging, California's old growth redwood forests are only a fraction of what they once were. Today, they remain a narrow coastal band that extends from Monterey Bay to the Oregon border. But redwoods are facing a new threat. As Lauren Sommer reports, scientists are trying to understand how these trees are responding to a changing climate.
Audio Report on Dec 20, 2010 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
Post on Dec 20, 2010 by Dr. Barry Starr
California's Redwoods Face Climate Change
After a century of logging, California's old growth redwood forests are only a fraction of what they once were. But redwoods are facing a new threat — climate change.
Post on Dec 17, 2010 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
UCSF Scientists Bio-Hack Bacteria
Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco have hacked into the genetic wiring of billions of individual bacteria and outfitted them with the kind of on/off switches normally found in computer chips, not living organisms.
Post on Dec 14, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq
Post on Dec 08, 2010 by Cat
It Came From Mono Lake
The world is buzzing about the bacteria from Mono Lake, a strain of bacteria that can substitute the element arsenic for phosphorus into the backbone of its DNA.
Post on Dec 06, 2010 by Jennifer Skene
Solving Mutation Mysteries
Hopefully one way redwoods turn albino is through mutations in their chloroplast DNA. Then the mystery will be solved sooner rather than later.
Post on Dec 06, 2010 by Dr. Barry Starr
Arsenic-Eating Bacteria Expands Definition of Life
A Bay Area biochemist has found a new strain of bacteria living in the briny shores of Mono Lake that can not only eat arsenic, a substance highly toxic to most organisms, but thrive on it.
Post on Dec 02, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq
AIDS Researchers Unlock Cell Death Mystery
For nearly 30 years scientists have known that a cell vital to the immune system dies off in patients with HIV, leading eventually to the onset of AIDS. But exactly when and how has remained a mystery – until now.
Post on Dec 01, 2010 by Sheraz Sadiq
Building an Artificial Leaf
At UC Berkeley, scientists studying how to feed our growing need for energy have turned to a surprising source. As Lauren Sommer reports, researchers there are trying to produce the next generation of green power by mimicking something every weekend gardener works to clean up.
Audio Report on Nov 29, 2010 by Lauren Sommer from QUEST Northern California
A Superfoods-laden Thanksgiving
Four prominent Thanksgiving food items could be considered 'superfoods.' Are these on your table?
Post on Nov 25, 2010 by Cat
Ghostbusters of the Forest
Because clones aren't always the same, Stanford geneticists have a pretty good shot at figuring out what makes a redwood albino using DNA sequencing.
Post on Nov 22, 2010 by Dr. Barry Starr
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