Separated at birth, but split brains build new bridges
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 4:00)
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Unique connections can form in the brains of people born with the two hemispheres of their brain separated, explaining how the two sides can communicate
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Bullying raises risk of cardiovascular disease
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 4:00)
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words hurt too. Victims of bullying live with high levels of a protein linked to heart disease and diabetes
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The Victorian monster destruction engine
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 3:30)
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"The best-hated man in England" built a huge machine to test 19th-century engineering? and it can still rend steel slabs. Sumit Paul-Choudhury pays a visit (full text available to subscribers)
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Collapse of Antarctic glaciers seems to be unstoppable
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 3:06)
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Parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are already collapsing and probably cannot be saved, although it will take centuries for them to disappear entirely
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Alex Bellos wanders in his mathematical wonderland
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 3:00)
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From the appeal of seven to a shadowy textbook-writing cabal, Alex Through The Looking Glass is a whistle-stop tour of entertaining areas of mathematics
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Stolen dinosaur head reveals weird hybrid species
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 2:34)
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Palaeontologists have recovered the only known skull of a Deinocheirus , revealing that the species looked like a duck-billed cross between an ostrich and a camel
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Deepest-diving sub implodes in Kermadec trench
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 1:31)
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We raise a glass to the pioneering underwater explorer Nereus, which imploded this week while doing what it did best– exploring the unknown
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Today on New Scientist
from New Scientist - Online news
(2014-5-13 1:31)
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All the latest on newscientist.com: Norse UFOs, zap your brain to control dreams, steer a wheelchair with your eyes, what's drying Australia and more
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サインポスト、Illumina社のチップ使い遺伝子検査サービスを刷新へ
from 日経バイオテクONLINE
(2014-5-13 0:00)
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サインポスト(大阪・中央)の山崎義光社長は2014年5月8日、本誌の取材に応じ、現在手掛けている遺伝子検査サービスについて2014年6月1日から大幅刷新することを明らかにした。
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【山本研ゲノム編集アップデイト(5)】米MIT、細胞内でのCRISPR/Cas9のゲノムワイドな結合特異性を解明
from 日経バイオテクONLINE
(2014-5-13 0:00)
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ゲノム編集技術における“特異性”は、これまでオフターゲット切断の頻度と同義に捉えられてきた。すなわちゲノム中に存在する本来の標的配列と類似した配列に変異を入れているかどうかに焦点を当て、特異性の判断がなされてきたのである。とりわけ技術導入が容易で編集効率も高いCRISPR/Cas9については、しばしばこのオフターゲット切断箇所の多寡が取り沙汰され、特異性を上げるための工夫も施されてきている。
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