Brain sleep appeared early in vertebrate evolution. Researchers describe the existence of REM and slow-wave sleep in the Australian dragon, with many common features with mammalian sleep: a phase characterized …read more Source:: Science
Month: April 2016
RNA splicing mutations play major role in genetic variation and disease
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•RNA splicing is a major underlying factor that links mutations to complex traits and diseases, according to an exhaustive analysis of gene expression in whole genome and cell line data. …read more Source:: Science
Vitamin stops the aging process of organs
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•By administering nicotinamide riboside to elderly mice, researchers restored their organs’ ability to regenerate and prolonged their lives. This method has potential for treating a number of degenerative diseases. …read more Source:: Science
At last: Non-toxic and cheap thin-film solar cells for ‘zero-energy’ buildings
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•‘Zero-energy’ buildings — which generate as much power as they consume — are now much closer after engineers have achieved the world’s highest efficiency using flexible solar cells that are …read more Source:: Science
Possible extragalactic source of high-energy neutrinos
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•Nearly 10 billion years ago in a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418, a dramatic explosion occurred. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now, an international team …read more Source:: Science
Hear no evil: Farmed fish found to be hard of hearing
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•Half of the world’s farmed fish have hearing loss due to a deformity of the earbone, new research has found for the first time. Like humans, fish have ears which …read more Source:: Science
Friends ‘better than morphine’
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•People with more friends have higher pain tolerance, researchers have found, in a study looking at social networks and endorphin levels. …read more Source:: Science
Coming soon to PowerShell: Docker controls, courtesy of Microsoft
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft is hard at work making Docker a first-class citizen on Windows. It has already integrated Docker more closely with Windows’ internals and made Docker’s CLI run well. …read more Source:: OpenSource
93 percent of advanced leukemia patients in remission after immunotherapy
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•Twenty-seven of 29 patients with an advanced type of leukemia that had proved resistant to multiple other forms of therapy went into remission after their T cells (disease-fighting immune cells) …read more Source:: Science
Scientists establish first map of the sea lion brain
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•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