Monthly Archives: November 2016

Highlights of the BMC-series: October 2016

04/11/2016 Benny Yau

Imaging plant cell walls – Cosmic radiation affects the brain – Community sports and health promotion – Regenerating worms – Environmental risks and dementia – Dimorphism in Siberian squirrels – Plant innate immunity – Gene flow of king penguins – Meningitis in Vietnam

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When the brain goes diving: how seals can go without air for an hour

03/11/2016 Mariana Leivas Müller Hoff & Andrej Fabrizius

Hooded seals are capable of remarkable feats of diving, staying underwater for up to an hour at a time. Mariana Hoff and Andrej Fabrizius discuss their recent research, published in BMC Genomics, which looks at the molecular adaptations in the hooded seal brain which enables them to go without oxygen for such long periods.

Biology