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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
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Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines.
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New Coronavirus Protease Structure Available
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Genetically modify bacteria in three simple steps - Heat shock
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say
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DNA animations by wehi.tv for science-art exhibition
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China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies
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Erythranthe Peregrina - The flower species born from a sterile hybrid. Twice.
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New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses
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For these species, their biological sex is the most consequential trait. (Extreme sexual dimorphism)
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research
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How fungi made all life on land possible
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Effects of one year of Vitamin D and marine Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on biomarkers of systemic inflammation in older US adults
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
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Earliest signs of life
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Venoms vs. poisons
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
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Evidence for bias of genetic ancestry in resting state functional MRI
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI [blocked] Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional...
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI
[blocked]Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
[not blocked]Someone posted this on Reddit. It purports to be a study which shows that it is possible to identify a person's genetic ancestry (in other words, their "race") by observing their brain activity.
Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. We hypothesize that these observed differences are a result of known ethnicity-related variations in head and brain morphology
This feels problematic, in that it gives support to the racist idea that different "races" think differently. But I don't know enough myself to believe this study or debunk it. I present it for more knowledgeable people than myself to dissect and discuss.
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'Ding dong, it's time': Dancing tarantulas emerge in droves to mate in western US
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Mystery disease kills dozens of dogs across Norway as officials scramble to find cause
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Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics announced, awarding a collective $21.6 million
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Deinonychus, the raptor that made us rethink dinosaurs
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The 'Sea Nomad' children who see like dolphins
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Spectacular mitosis in mesenchymal stem cells
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Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie
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How life sciences actually work
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A vaccine for cat allergies is in development; early results are promising, aiming for market release in 2022
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