Despite considerable evidence for the California sea lion’s intelligence, very little is known about how their brain is organized. Now, a team of neuroscientists has taken an important step toward …read more Source:: Science
Day: April 27, 2016
Analysis of dog genome will provide insight into human disease
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•An important model in studying human disease, the non-coding RNA of the canine genome is an essential starting point for evolutionary and biomedical studies, according to a new study. …read more Source:: Science
Early humans may have been food for carnivores 500,000 years ago
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•Tooth-marks on a 500,000-year-old hominin femur bone found in a Moroccan cave indicate that it was consumed by large carnivores, likely hyenas, according to a new study. …read more Source:: Science
Experimental drug cancels effect from key intellectual disability gene in mice
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•A researcher who studies the most common genetic intellectual disability has used an experimental drug to reverse — in mice — damage from the mutation that causes the syndrome. The …read more Source:: Science
A single-celled organism capable of learning
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•For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that an organism devoid of a nervous system is capable of learning. Biologists have succeeded in showing that a single-celled organism, the protist, …read more Source:: Science
Who gets hooked on drugs? Rat study finds genetic markers that influence addiction
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•Why does addiction vulnerability differ from individual to individual? For the first time, scientists have shown in selectively bred animals that the propensity for addiction is linked to differences in …read more Source:: Science
Chemists use DNA to build the world’s tiniest thermometer
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•Researchers have created a programmable DNA thermometer that is 20,000x smaller than a human hair. One of the main advantages of using DNA to engineer molecular thermometers is that DNA …read more Source:: Science
Ubuntu 16.04: A desktop for Linux diehards
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•By Jonathan Freeman Every two years a release of Ubuntu is designated Long-Term Support (LTS). Ubuntu 16.04, code-named Xenial Xerus, is the latest in that line. LTS releases are supported for five years …read more Source:: OpenSource
CIOs still don’t get open source
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•By Matt Asay This morning, Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson dropped a bombshell: “41 percent of enterprise decision makers say that increasing use of open source is a high or critical priority …read more Source:: OpenSource
Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack cloud come to IBM servers
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•IBM partners with Canonical to bring not only Linux, but the OpenStack cloud and Juju-assembled programs as well, to big-iron servers. …read more Source:: Linux