Tag: life
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Disease, definitions, change...
People who carry a high-risk gene for Alzheimer's disease show changes in their brains beginning in childhood, decades before the illness appears, new research from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) suggests. (1) When does a change start? When does a disease begin? Arbitrary definitions, haunting our lives... Being ill all the time.…
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Minimum requirements for life...
Until now scientists have a hard time defining the minimum set of genes required for life to be created... Various attempts have resulted in various sets of genes which do overlap, but are not identical.. [1] Logical. How can you define the undefined? How can you see the unseen? How can you see the stars if…
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Cells moving... So what?!?
With a custom-built 3-D printer, scientists have created networks of water droplets bound together with a cell-like lipid layer. Altering the concentration of chemicals in the droplets prompts water to move from the blue to the yellow part of the network, spurring curving. In that way the cells seem to resemble skin cells functions, "mimicking…
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Vostok, bacteria and personal agendas in Science: A sad tale...
A Russian scientist over the weekend dismissed the claims of his colleagues that water pulled from a lake buried for millions of years beneath Antarctica contained a strange new form of microbial life. But on Monday, those colleagues insisted that the bacterium they have discovered doesn't fall into any known categories. The tiny creature in…
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Morning. Unhappiness.
A beautiful morning. All smiles. And yet behind the everyday hypocrisy "Good Morning!" routine. Unhapiness may thrive...
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