Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial
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Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor
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New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic
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Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic?
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An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins
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Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant
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Coronavirus COVID-19 models are starting to give us an idea of what a pandemic would look like, but there's still so much we don't know
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"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute."
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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
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Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth
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Upside-down jellyfish lob tiny grenades to kill prey
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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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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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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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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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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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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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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