In The News: School of Life Sciences
Grasshoppers are raging the Las Vegas Valley of Nevada (USA) so dense that sometimes they appear on the radar screen of the meteorological station, and it is expected that the grasshopper problem will last for several weeks.
The "Game of Thrones" series ended last week.
Martin Schiller is the founder of Heligenics and executive director of 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ‘s Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine.
At first, there was no road at all, just a series of springs where the water table breached the earth’s crust.
Your genes may hold clues to your optimal diet plan.
That’s what 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researcher Martin Schiller advocates with his new business, Food Genes and Me, a website that uses genetic data to predict how eating less or more of a certain food could help ward off disease.
Separate threads of Oscar Monterrosa’s life tied together Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas.
His time as a combat medic in the Iraq War, his high school days as a lifeguard in Northern California and later Oregon, his studies at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, the classes he teaches and his job as a paramedic for Community Ambulance, a private paramedic company—all converged.
No fantasy world is complete without fire-breathing dragons . But if dragons were real, how could they get that kind of fiery breath?
It's not just ordinary sleep, it's a biological/natural wonder and a bear's miracle.
Brian Hedlund and Ariel Friel collect microbes living for tens of thousands of years in the subsurface of the earth. By studying these microorganisms, they hope to gain clues about potential life on Mars and other planets.
Martin Schiller’s research lab at 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ is creating far more than just experiments. The research completed inside the Schiller Laboratory of Applied Bioinformatics has led to Schiller’s Heligenics, a startup that could help genetics testing companies shine a light on undiagnosed diseases.
Some bears hibernate in hollowed out tree-trunks. Some take a months-long rest beneath thick brambles and brush. Others dig into the hills to forge snug dens. And still others discover caves to hide away from the biting winter chill.
The public outcry over the selective thinning of beautiful — but non-native — pine trees from Oak Opening Preserve Metropark is being tempered by science that now shows the controversial Metroparks Toledo decision from years past is paying off.
