Biological Sciences @ ScienceAlerts.com
Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) June 27, 2012
ScienceAlerts.com is an Biological Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,836 members have signed up and have actively contributed 920,225 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Biological Sciences category currently features 383,937 stories exclusively selected from 997 scientific biology publishing sources.
ScienceAlerts.com's Biological Sciences Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. It currently contains 383,937 stories selected from 997 scholarly biological sciences journals. This category also provides an Biological Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles assesses testing four candidate barcoding markers in temperate woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). The authors' study is a first attempt to test the feasibility of four proposed DNA barcoding markers (matK, rbcL, trnH-psbA and ITS) in identifying 27 species of the temperate woody bamboos, i.e., Arundinarieae. They suggest that the combination of rbcL+ITS, which had the highest species identification power among all combinations, could be used as a potential DNA barcode in temperate woody bamboos. The category also features an article which predicts toxicity of the biofuel candidate 2,5-dimethylfuran in environmental and biological systems. 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) is a leading biofuel candidate, but was found to induce chromosomal damage in cultured murine cells, suggesting that it may be genotoxic. The authors consequently sought to prioritize the environmental and biological impacts of using DMF as a combustible biofuel. Although their results were inadequate for a stand-alone risk assessment of having associations with tumors and systemic diseases, the data suggest that DMF combustion intermediates pose a much broader range of hazards than DMF itself.
ScienceAlerts.com's review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its' large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.
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