Opening the way for global innovation in biotechnology
A new easy-to-use legal tool that enables open exchange of biological materials is launched today.
Other
Oct 11, 2018
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NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Luban crawling
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a visible image of Tropical Cyclone Luban as it continued to spin over the Arabian Sea and slowly head toward Oman.
Environment
Oct 11, 2018
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Facebook purges 251 accounts to thwart deception
Facebook on Thursday said it shut down 251 accounts for breaking rules against spam and coordinated deceit, some of it by ad farms pretending to be forums for political debate.
Internet
Oct 11, 2018
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NASA film by Rory Kennedy revisits her uncle's challenge
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy couldn't resist the obvious place to open her new documentary on NASA. That's a news clip of her uncle, President John F. Kennedy, challenging the space agency to land a man on the moon by the end of ...
Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2018
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New route of acquiring antibiotic resistance in bacteria is the most potent one to date
Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses that infect and parasitize bacteria. These phages can transfer DNA from one bacterium to another through a process known as genetic transduction. This is thought to be the major means ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 11, 2018
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Do lizards dream like humans?
Researchers from the Sleep Team at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CNRS/INSERM/Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University/Université Jean Monnet), together with a colleague from the MECADEV research laboratory (CNRS/Muséum ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2018
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Massive star's unusual death heralds the birth of compact neutron star binary
Carnegie's Anthony Piro was part of a Caltech-led team of astronomers who observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading supernova, possibly creating a compact neutron ...
Astronomy
Oct 11, 2018
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Disorder induces topological Anderson insulator
Topological insulators (TIs) host exotic physics that could shed new light on the fundamental laws of nature. What's more, the unusual properties of TIs hold tremendous promise for technological applications, including in ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 11, 2018
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Human retinas grown in a dish explain how color vision develops
Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retinas from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 11, 2018
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Computational model links family members using genealogical and law-enforcement databases
The notion of using genetic ancestry databases to solve crimes recently crossed from hypothetical into credible when police used an online genealogical database to track down the alleged Golden State Killer, a serial criminal ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 11, 2018
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