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Oldest Ancient-Human Dna Details Dawn of Neanderthals
Matthias Meyer has just published the results of what may be the world's most wasteful genome-sequencing project.
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What Google's Winning Go Algorithm Will Do Next
Following the defeat of one of its finest human players, the ancient game of Go has joined the growing list of tasks at which computers perform better than humans...
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Welcome to the Crispr Zoo
Timothy Doran's 11-year-old daughter is allergic to eggs. And like about 2% of children worldwide who share the condition, she is unable to receive many routine...
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Crispr: Gene Editing Is Just the Beginning
Whenever a paper about CRISPR–Cas9 hits the press, the staff at Addgene quickly find out.
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Et Search: Look For the Aliens Looking For Earth
By watching how the light dims as a planet orbits in front of its parent star, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered more than 1,000 worlds since its launch in...
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Should You Edit Your Children's Genes?
Ruthie Weiss's basketball team seemed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss.
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Dna Tags Help the Hunt For Drugs
Nestled in a plastic box, in an ordinary laboratory freezer on the second floor of a concrete building in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a clear test tube that contains...
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Evidence Mounts For Interbreeding Bonanza in Ancient Human Species
The discovery of yet another period of interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals is adding to the growing sense that sexual encounters among different...
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The Chips Are Down For Moore’s Law
The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore's law. Now things could get a lot more interesting.
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k Scientists Gain Licence to Edit Genes in Human Embryos
Scientists in London have been granted permission to edit the genomes of human embryos for research, UK fertility regulators announced. The 1 February approval...
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Babylonian Astronomers sed Geometry to Track Jupiter
A reanalysis of markings on Babylonian tablets has revealed that astronomers working between the fourth and first centuries bc used geometry to calculate the motions...
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Go Players React to Computer Defeat
For decades, the ancient game of Go has stood out as the one board game that computers couldn't crack.
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Evidence Grows For Giant Planet on Fringes of Solar System
A century after observatory founder Percival Lowell speculated that a 'Planet X' lurks at the fringes of the Solar System, astronomers say that they have the best...
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...
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Enzyme Tweak Boosts Precision of Crispr Genome Edits
A powerful technique for editing genomes is now more precise.
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Paradox at the Heart of Mathematics Makes Physics Problem nanswerable
A logical paradox at the heart of mathematics and computer science turns out to have implications for the real world, making a basic question about matter fundamentally...
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Gene-Editing Summit Supports Some Research in Human Embryos
Gene-editing technology should not be used to modify human embryos that are intended for use in establishing a pregnancy, an international summit declared in a...
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Artificial Intelligence Called In to Tackle Lhc Data Deluge
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...
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Biologists Create More Precise Molecular Scissors For Genome Editing
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is...
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