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1 month ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Annie Melchor |Katie Moisse
For a neuroscientist, the opportunity to record single neurons in people doesn’t knock every day. It is so rare, in fact, that after 14 years of waiting by the door, Florian Mormann says he has recruited just 110 participants—all with intractable epilepsy. All participants had electrodes temporarily implanted in their brains to monitor their seizures.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Annie Melchor
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
wired.com | Annie Melchor
For a molecule of RNA, the world is a dangerous place. Unlike DNA, which can persist for millions of years in its remarkably stable, double-stranded form, RNA isn’t built to last—not even within the cell that made it. Unless it’s protectively tethered to a larger molecule, RNA can degrade in minutes or less. And outside a cell? Forget about it.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Annie Melchor
1 day agoVenus fly traps are one of nature’s most interesting plants as they’re one of the few that’s carnivorous, meaning they actually eat living creatures. However, despite being plants, the mechanisms or their electrically activated jaws were never quite understood. That is until now.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
quantamagazine.org | Steven Strogatz |Max G. Levy |Janna Levin |Annie Melchor
When we think about medicine’s war on cancer, treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy spring to mind first. Now there is another potential weapon for defeating tumors: statistics and mathematical models that can optimize the selection, combination or timing of treatment. Building and feeding these models requires accounting for the complexity of the body, and recognizing that cancer cells are constantly evolving.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
quantamagazine.org | Janna Levin |Annie Melchor |Yasemin Saplakoglu |R. Douglas Fields
Introduction If instruments do someday detect evidence of life beyond Earth, whether it’s in this solar system or in the farther reaches of space, astrobiologists want to be ready. One of the best ways to learn how alien life might function can be to study the organisms called extremophiles, which live in incredibly challenging environments on or in the Earth.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
quantamagazine.org | Annie Melchor |Yasemin Saplakoglu |R. Douglas Fields
Introduction For a molecule of RNA, the world is a dangerous place. Unlike DNA, which can persist for millions of years in its remarkably stable, double-stranded form, RNA isn’t built to last — not even within the cell that made it. Unless it’s protectively tethered to a larger molecule, RNA can degrade in minutes or less. And outside a cell? Forget about it.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
quantamagazine.org | Yasemin Saplakoglu |Annie Melchor |R. Douglas Fields
Introduction Two years ago, Sarah Shomstein realized she didn’t have a mind’s eye. The vision scientist was sitting in a seminar room, listening to a scientific talk, when the presenter asked the audience to imagine an apple. Shomstein closed her eyes and did so. Then, the presenter asked the crowd to open their eyes and rate how vividly they saw the apple in their mind. Saw the apple? Shomstein was confused. She didn’t actually see an apple.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
quantamagazine.org | Veronique Greenwood |Annie Melchor |Yasemin Saplakoglu |R. Douglas Fields
Introduction Once upon a time, long ago, the world was encased in ice. That’s the tale told by sedimentary rock in the tropics, many geologists believe. Hundreds of millions of years ago, glaciers and sea ice covered the globe. The most extreme scenarios suggest a layer of ice several meters thick even at the equator. This event has been called “Snowball Earth,” and you’d think it would be a terrible time to be alive — and maybe, for some organisms, it was.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Holly Barker |Brady Huggett |Emily Finn |Annie Melchor
The compendium of brain-parcellation atlases makes it possible to compare large-scale network data, which often involves different and overlapping network names. The compendium of brain-parcellation atlases makes it possible to compare large-scale network data, which often involves different and overlapping network names.
