Saw this video of amazing Cnidarians at PZ Myers blog . Video originally uploaded by Eugenia Loli-Queru watch this mesmerizing video.

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.
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It looks like primates are ruling the science world these days, last week it was famous primate fossil “IDA” made headlines and now Japanese scientists succeeded in generating transgenic primate marmoset . This research might go a long way in use of Marmosets as an alternative disease model to rhesus macaques.Erika Sasaki and her colleagues at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals in Kawasaki injected viral vectors with green fluorescent protein (GFP) into 91 marmoset embryos and successfully shown passing of a transgene a primate to its offspring.Transgenic …

A PhD position on Wnt signalling in heart muscle development is up for grabs. This project in the lab of Stefan Hoppler is funded by the British Heart Foundation . This project investigates the role of a molecule called FrzA, which is present where the heart normally forms. We think FrzA functions to inhibit Wnt signalling and thereby to promote the formation of heart muscle.
For more details contact the supervisor Dr Stefan Hoppler @ s.p.hoppler@abdn.ac.uk.
Further Details on the PhD programme and how to apply on
< http://www.abdn.ac.uk/clsm/graduate/themelist.php?id=7>.
Further Detail of the research …

Ida, a 47-million-year-old primate fossil from Messel, Germany , was grabbing headlines in press and television last week . But things doesn’t seems to be going fine for poor ida and extensive media hype has played a major role.
Darwinius , famously called as Ida is an amazing fossil discovery ,which is not only complete but also extraordinarily preserved. One can also see parts of her last meal preserved inside ida’s stomach. But media is more interested in the missing link factor ,which according many experts in the field is extensively …

In the previous two posts related to tunicates , we saw a brief introduction to them and also their position in the tree of life.Today we take a look into some aspects of Hox genes in these amazing animals. We live on a wonderful planet which is full of life and there exists enormous diversity when it comes to body plan of animals.Its more amazing to know that all animals are made up of essentially almost similar set of genes but only thing that differs is the combination’s of the …

Darwinius masillae a 47 million year old primate nicknamed Ida.
Sketches are by Bogdan Bocianowski

Citation: Franzen JL, Gingerich PD, Habersetzer J, Hurum JH, von Koenigswald W, et al. (2009) Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology. PLoS ONE 4(5): e5723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005723
UPDATE:
Guardian has a special allotted to Ida , with gives loads of information about this amazing fossil and a must visit page. check that out here
Webpage dedicated to Ida : www.revealingthelink.com (110)

A new fossil discovery, believed to be a transitional species showing characteristics from both the non-human (prosimians and lemurs) and human (anthropoids, monkeys, apes and man) evolutionary lines is grabbing headline all over the world. This fossil of a young female that probably resembled a modern-day lemur was discovered by amateur fossil hunters in 1983 in a mile-wide crater called the Messel Shale Pit, not far from Frankfurt. The creature, named Darwinius masillae, lived around 47 million years ago during the Eocene epoch, and is the first example of a …