Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. A stunning animation of John Lloyd's classic TEDTalk from 2009, which will make you question what you actually know.
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The gene which serves to increase rice grain yield by 20% was discovered by a group of Asian researchers along with the support of Italians. The work which was presented in Nature in August confirms the importance of safeguarding the genetic variations which form part of the agronomic species in question which are no longer cultivated. The PSTOL1 gene – Phosphorous Starvation Tolerance 1 – has, in actual fact, been isolated from the traditional rice variety named Kasalath, of Indian origin, which grows successfully in soil with low phosphorous
On Tuesday the 28th August, the European court of Human Rights declared the ruling that many couples wanting to have children were awaiting. A decision which sanctions, without a shadow of doubt, the inadequacy and inconsistency of Italian legislation regulating medically assisted reproduction.
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Everything started at the beginning of September in San Francisco, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, when Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, took the floor to speak about her work. A work that ground its roots during the 2009 flu pandemic, when people who got a flu shot for the 2008-09 winter seemed to be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who hadn't received a flu shot. Dr.
An infection by a coronavirus belonging to the same family of that responsible for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has been reported in the United Kingdom. A 49 years old man from Qatari with a travel history to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been admitted to an intensive care unit in Doha, Qatar, on 7 September, with symptoms of acute respiratory syndrome with renal failure.
Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution are working on visual recognition software to help identify species from photographs. Leafsnap is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed to demonstrate this new technology.
Studing the bats life is not that simple. Bat biologist Nickolay Hristov, of UNC's Center for Design Innovation and Winston-Salem State University, has developed an innovative technique for filming and visualizing bats and the caves they occupy. Some of the tools in his kit include a long-range laser scanner (useful for modelling bat cave morphology in 3D) and portable thermal cameras to capture bat-life when the lights are off.
This video is about some of the most interesting facts about life. It is fun and useful to sound smarter speaking about those simple, but amazing informations!
It is possible to teach genetics in such as way as to gain students' interest. Yes, but a different approach is needed. This is the opinion of Rosemary J.Redfield, who teaches genetics at the Department of Zoology at the Canadian University of British Columbia, as stated in an article published in Plos Biology in July. The paper proposes a new way of teaching basic genetics, more suitable for students of the 21st century.
