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June 15, 2026Japan Is Running Out of Royals. Are More Men the Answer? – The New York Times
June 15, 2026Japan Is Running Out of Royals. Are More Men the Answer? – The New
York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/world/asia/japan-royal-family-adoption-male.html
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases
June 14, 2026Might be useful to interrelated with pgenes
‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00217-w
also:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01492-x
Callaway, E. (2026). Revealed: the mysterious ‘dark’ proteins that might play a big role in biology. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01492-x
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However, some scientists say there might be thousands more ‘dark proteins’ with unknown but potentially important roles in cells. These proteins and the genes that encode them have been excluded from databases of known human genes and proteins.
An effort announced today in Nature1 gives thousands of these molecules encoded by the human genome an official, new name — peptideins — and marks their inclusion in major gene and protein databases used by the life-sciences community.
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June 14, 2026Banana Nutella Cupcake $5.00
Met Spring Water 16oz$7.00
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June 14, 2026v heavy scones + biscotti
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The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for
June 14, 2026QT:{{”
But, in the early 2010s, various ecologists began to wonder whether air might contain useful DNA traces beyond those wrapped in such windborne bundles. In 2013, biologists Matt Clark at the Natural History Museum in London and Richard Leggett at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK, took air samples in a greenhouse and outside it. …
Europe is dotted with radionuclide-detection stations, which could provide “an unprecedented opportunity to reconstruct ecological history and detect ongoing changes”, say Stenberg and his co-authors. …
That application is a focus for Clark and Leggett. Since their first discovery of plant DNA blowing in the air, they have developed technology that can detect known crop pathogens weeks before they cause visible damage — information that could enable more judicious spraying of pesticides, they say. Clark and Leggett launched a spin-off company this year that deploys a technology, AirSeq, which they say could be used to track human and animal diseases or antimicrobial resistance, for example. “We are interested to see what people might do with it,” says Clark.
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Many in the field are wary of the implications of such by-catch. “If breathing is putting your DNA out into the air, how does that bump up against how we think of privacy?,” says Kelly, who co-wrote an article7 in 2023 that calls for a moratorium on the study of human DNA from environmentally sourced samples, until global principles are agreed. Some journals already have a moratorium — such as
Environmental DNA, for which Creer is an editor-in-chief. Creer and others are hoping to create a multidisciplinary group to assess the ethics.
Researchers in other sectors are intrigued by the possibilities. Peter Gill, a forensic geneticist at the University of Oslo, and his colleagues have been assessing airborne DNA caught in offices and air-conditioning units8 for its potential as a forensic tool.
“People who have been recently in a building, within a day or so, you can certainly pick up their DNA” from the air, says Gill. For a longer-term record, he says, there is airborne DNA on surfaces. “You can take the dust from on top of a door sill, where people don’t normally clean. And then you’ll have a sort of mini-historical record of people who have been in there.”
Gill says that airborne DNA could be useful in forensics, provided its limitations are taken into account. These are similar to those of established techniques for analysing DNA from surfaces that have been touched: you need a human-DNA database with which to compare your sample, and a correlation is a probability, not a ‘match’.
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Nature 652, 556-558 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01099-2
Receipt from Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea #79YG
June 14, 2026Biscotti
Cappuccino
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Colleges Are Building A.I. Degrees, Hoping Students Will Come
June 14, 2026A.I. Degree Programs Surge as Colleges Seek Students and Relevance – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/ai-college-degrees.html
How Bettors Use Arbitrage to Make Free Money on Kalshi and Polymarket
June 14, 2026nice tutorial on odds
How Bettors Use Arbitrage to Make Free Money on Kalshi and Polymarket – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/12/upshot/kalshi-polymarket-prediction-markets-arbitrage.html
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