Source of Hidden Consciousness in ‘Comatose’ Brain Injury Patients Found (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)
This Molecule May Have Seeded Earth Life (nautil.us)
Surprise COVID Discovery Helps Explain How Coronaviruses Jump Species (newsroom.uvahealth.com)
Researchers Engineer Bacteria that Can Detect Tumor DNA (today.ucsd.edu)
Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.
Biochip could detect multiple viruses, cancers, or toxins in minutes (www.science.org)
The Virus is Learning New Tricks and We Humans Keep Falling Behind (erictopol.substack.com)
Study Finds a Surprising New Role for a Major Immune Regulator (news.mit.edu)
New Photocatalytic System Converts Carbon Dioxide to Valuable Fuel More Efficiently than Natural Photosynthesis (www.cityu.edu.hk)
How the Gut Signals to the Brain (hms.harvard.edu)
CAR-T Immune Therapy Attacks Ovarian Cancer in Mice with a Single Dose (news.illinois.edu)
Insulin-Like Hormones Critical for Brain Plasticity (www.mpfi.org)
‘Deletions’ from the human genome may be what made us human (news.yale.edu)
Watch these rare ocean creatures caught on candid robot camera (www.popsci.com)
The interior design of our cells (alleninstitute.org)
DNA Tilts and Stretches Underlie Differences in Mutation Rates Across Genomes (blogs.bcm.edu)
Researchers Develop “In Vivo” Gene Editing Model for Blood Disorders (www.chop.edu)
Scientists Discover a New, Unexpected Way That Cancer Cells Spread (www.sciencealert.com)
A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva (journals.plos.org)
Advancing chemical recycling of waste plastics (www.sciencedaily.com)
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages: Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages (www.sciencedaily.com)
Examining how atomic nuclei vibrate with a greater degree of precision (phys.org)
How important is it to have tables upon tables about how things actually interact? I’d say that’s pretty important.