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Quadruple Helix DNA Discovered In Human Cells, Is The Double Rainbow Of...
A team of researchers at Cambridge University have spotted the first instances of DNA with four helices present inside human cells. The Cambridge team hopes their findings could have implications for...
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Scientists Code All 154 Shakespeare Sonnets and MP3 Files With DNA
I recently picked up a 32 gig micro-SD card, and I was impressed by how much data could fit into something so small, but that’s nothing compared to the research being done in DNA data storage. Science...
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This Pistol Fires DNA Bullets To Tag Criminals In The Act Without, You Know,...
Whether or not you’re a gun fan, you’re pretty used to seeing police officers — and even some private security guards toting guns around to protect citizens and property. But not every criminal...
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Today in Geek History: Watson and Crick Discover DNA
60 years ago today, one of the most important discoveries in the history of modern science was announced, as is right and proper, at a bar. On February 28, 1953 in the Eagle Pub, James Watson and...
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Herring Sperm Coating Makes Fabrics Flame Retardant
Looking for a way to make sure your clothes don’t burst into flame? A team of researchers at the Polytechnic University of Turin has come up with a method I’m willing to wager you’ve never tried...
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Kangaroo Poo DNA Test Helps Researchers Count And Manage Species - The...
Researchers in Australia have developed a fast, easy, and kind of gross way to to track populations on different species of kangaroo and wallaby across the continent with a quick and dirty DNA test...
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Happy 93rd Birthday, Rosalind Franklin! Google Got You a Doodle! - Well, it's...
You can be forgiven if you’re not familiar with today’s Google Doodle of Rosalind Franklin. Though she did much of the important X-ray crystallography work that set the stage for James Watson and...
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Nanorobots Could Deliver Medicine to Specific Body Parts Through Your Blood -...
Are there tiny robots in your blood right now? Probably not. But there could be soon thanks to science. Thanks, science! The tiny robots in question are actually DNA nanocages that can be programmed...
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We Have Real, Living Glow in the Dark Pigs Now, Because Science Says “Why...
Advances in genetic engineering have allowed scientists at the South China Agricultural University to raise piglets that glow green when exposed to black light. If you were already on the fence about...
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Olive Oil Counterfeiters, Beware “Magnetic DNA Particles” - Sadly, this does...
Today we learned that olive oil counterfeiting is a real thing, and not the plot of some future Wes Anderson movie. We also learned that olive oil counterfeiters’ days might be numbered thanks to some...
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Science Can Use DNA GPS To Determine Where Your Ancestors Lived 1000 Years...
Most of us can trace our lineage back a few generations, but what about way back? Like, would-need-a-TARDIS-to-determine-the-truth back? Two scientists have collaborated to create a new kind of DNA...
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You’re About To Be Able To Make A Baby With Three Biological Parents - But...
Making a baby with two parents is pretty cool, I guess – but what if your baby could have DNA from three different biological parents? Well science has already done it – it’s a real thing, and it’s...
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Jack the Ripper’s Identity “Confirmed” by That Bastion of Scientific Thought:...
We finally know who Jack the Ripper was, and we have the Daily Mail to thank! It was Walter Sickert! Er, I mean, it was actually a woman who worked for Salvation Army! Wait no, it was actually Aaron...
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Surprise! That DNA “Evidence” Shows We’re All Jack the Ripper Victims! Or...
Oh no! The (most) recent supposed Jack the Ripper identification was wrong! He’s still at large! Wait, what do you mean he lived over 100 years ago? The Daily Mail is somehow fueled about 15% by Jack...
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Scientists Edit Human Embryo DNA for the First Time, Find That the Technology...
Two steps forward, one step back: scientists edited the DNA of human embryos for the first time, and they’re going to take a break, because it didn’t go so well. They probably weren’t all too...
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Nicole Kidman Will Star as Rosalind Franklin in Photograph 51 on the West End
Unfortunately, Nicole Kidman isn’t starring in a film adaptation of Anna Ziegler’s play about scientist Rosalind Franklin, but she is currently starring in that play on the West End, so if you’re in...
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Nicole Kidman to Play Rosalind Franklin in Film Adaptation, Gives Franklin...
Nicole Kidman’s award-winning performance as British chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51 was met with rave reviews from audiences in the West End....
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Science Confirms What the Vikings Repeatedly Told Us: Women Were Warriors, Too
Researchers in Sweden have confirmed that a warrior skeleton previously assumed to have XY chromosomes instead has XX chromosomes – meaning that the Vikings, unlike modern MRAs, weren’t particularly...
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San Francisco Cops Used Victims’ DNA From Rape Kits To Charge Them With Crimes
According to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle, the city’s police have been using DNA collected from rape kits as a way to charge sexual assault victims with other crimes, sometimes years...
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Crocodiles Just Casually Proved ‘Jurassic Park’ Right About One Thing
A female member of the American crocodile species that has been held captive in a Costa Rica zoo for 18 years without contact with any possible mates was recently discovered to have reproduced on her...
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