The largest study of CRISPR action to date has developed a method to predict the exact mutations CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing can introduce to a cell. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute edited 40,000 different pieces ...
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2018
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Women are roughly twice as likely as men to develop depression, anxiety and other stress-related problems, including difficulty with attention, and new research from Brown University neuroscientists sheds light on the biological ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 27, 2018
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The alignment of state pension ages for women and men—while in some senses a milestone for gender equality—has created very real difficulties for those whose who will now not receive their State Pension when they had ...
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2018
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The approach, called Karyomapping, was originally designed to detect and screen for single gene and chromosome disorders simultaneously in human IVF embryos.
Biotechnology
Nov 27, 2018
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The solution to a 75-year-old materials mystery might one day allow farmers in developing nations to produce their own fertilizer on demand, using sunlight and nitrogen from the air.
Materials Science
Nov 27, 2018
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Scientists have determined the structure of the activated form of an enzyme that helps to return excess cholesterol to the liver, a study in eLife reports.
Biochemistry
Nov 27, 2018
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Pennsylvania's energy history is rich with the quantities of fossil fuels that it has produced, but is also rife with the environmental legacies of coal mining and, more recently, hydrofracturing. Water that finds its way ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2018
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Public protests are a vital, common tool for expressing grievances and creating communities. The political and social aspects of protests have been extensively studied, but little attention has been paid to the physical spaces ...
Social Sciences
Nov 27, 2018
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Scientists have developed a mathematical model showing that two types of cellular asymmetry, or 'polarity', govern the shaping of cells into sheets and tubes, according to an article in eLife.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 27, 2018
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Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy.
Archaeology
Nov 27, 2018
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