Posts Tagged ‘fromnpc’
Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints: Current Biology
July 13, 2025https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00583-4
Soroka, T., Ravia, A., Snitz, K., Honigstein, D., Weissbrod, A., Gorodisky, L., Weiss, T., Perl, O., & Sobel, N. (2025). Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints. Current Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.008
How evolution builds genes from scratch
March 23, 2025https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03061-x
Levy, A. (2019). How evolution builds genes from scratch. Nature, 574(7778), 314–316. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03061-x
How evolution builds genes from scratch
Scientists long assumed that new genes appear when evolution tinkers with old ones. It turns out that natural selection is much more creative.
APOE4 impairs myelination via cholesterol dysregulation in oligodendrocytes | Nature
December 9, 2022The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia | Nature
June 23, 2022https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04800-3
Great analysis of ancient (microbial) DNA!
The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch
June 11, 2022QT:{{”
Finally, there is widespread acknowledgement that ethical oversight must keep pace with this rapidly evolving technology. BCIs present multiple concerns, from privacy to personal autonomy. Ethicists stress that users must retain full control of the devices’ outputs. And although current technologies cannot decode people’s private thoughts, developers will have records of users’ every communication, and crucial data about their brain health. Moreover, BCIs present a new type of cybersecurity risk.
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Great article. Amazing technology. But I am worried about the long-term #privacy implications of real mind-reading devices.
A common sunscreen ingredient turns toxic in the sea — anemones suggest why
June 4, 2022One wonders if this can happen with oxybenzone sunscreen on people too. Perhaps a good reason to favor TiO2 or ZnO sunscreens.
