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CRISPR Gene-Editing Pioneers Win Kavli Prize for Nanoscience
...of stories from 2016, scientists aiming to redesign wild populations with CRISPR gene drives may find that evolution resists them at every turn and that controlling the spread of gene...
Mathematicians Disprove Conjecture Made to Save Black Holes
...evolution indefinitely far into the future. The dictum holds true whether you’re using Newton’s laws to predict the future position of a billiard ball, Maxwell’s equations to describe an electromagnetic...
To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Them Cause and Effect
...them and what we gain out of it. For some reason, evolution has found this sensation of free will to be computationally desirable. In what way? You have the sensation...
Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve
...Ph.D. in pathology, had always been fascinated by bacteria and evolutionary biology. And something evolutionarily profound was about to happen to bacteria in America. A new vaccine called Prevnar 7...
A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate
...Evolution, those wild differences in migration patterns — and the resulting distribution of bird species around the world — reflect the efforts of those species to maintain an optimal energy...
Cells Talk in a Language That Looks Like Viruses
...for evolution to play with. Evolution, Shepherd says, is the ultimate MacGyver, referring to the 1980s TV hero who could defuse a bomb with bubble gum and a paper clip....
Solution: ‘The DNA Computer Program’
...understand. Processes like evolutionary algorithms and artificial life have taught us that programs designed by evolution are extremely complicated and sometimes seem to defy logic, but they work. The decompilation...
Cell by Cell, Scientists Map the Genetic Steps as Eggs Become Animals
...their expression programs over the course of evolution. The conservation of the proteins at the sequence level seems to have no connection to the conservation of their expression in evolution....
Chronological Clues to Life’s Early History Lurk in Gene Transfers
https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12211 To date the branches on the evolutionary tree of life, researchers are looking at horizontal gene transfers among ancient microorganisms, which once seemed only to muddle the record. Scientists...