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Northern White Rhino Eggs Were Successfully Fertilized. Now We Wait.0
- Earth & Environment, Flash News
- August 26, 2019
Seven eggs harvested from the nearly extinct white rhinos have been successfully matured and artificially inseminated. Scientists injected frozen sperm cells from two white rhino bulls into the ten eggs collected from the world’s last two white rhinos females, Najin and Fatu. Seven out of ten eggs were used for fertilization purposes. Cesare Gali, who
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June 2019 Was the Hottest June Ever Recorded 0
- Earth & Environment, Flash News
- July 3, 2019
Last month, temperatures hit a record, according to the European Centre for Weather Forecasts. Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that the European-average temperature was higher in June 2019 than in any other month of June. A short but extreme heatwave coming from the Sahara Desert passed through Europe, causing an increase
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Top Stories of the Week: Trump’s Ban on Fetal Tissue Research, CRISPR Babies and Finger Ratios 0
- Flash News
- June 7, 2019
We selected this week’s three best science stories on the web for you. Read about Trump’s ban on fetal tissue research, the risks for CRISPR twin babies and the science of finger ratios.
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E.coli with a Synthetic, Less Redundant Genome Survives Normally 0
- Flash News
- May 17, 2019
Nucleic acids, like DNA and RNA, are made of small organic molecules, called nucleotides. Four different nucleotides exist for each nucleic acid (A, G, C, T for DNA and A, C, G, U for RNA). Put three nucleotides together and you have a codon (fig.1). In a way, codons are the bridge between the DNA molecule and amino
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Top News: Ban on Gene-Editing, Melting Arctic and Opportunity’s Last Photos 0
- Flash News
- March 16, 2019
Scientists ask for a global ban on gene-editing for clinical uses, the UN reveals the dimension of the Arctic’s catastrophe and NASA shows the last photos taken by the Opportunity rover; these were our favourite stories from this week.
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Free of HIV: UK Patient is the Second-Ever in Remission 0
- Flash News, Health & Medicine
- March 6, 2019
A decade after the ‘Berlin patient’, a second person appears to be free of HIV. A male patient in the UK has been in remission for 18 months, after quitting the antiretroviral therapy. The case was reported on March 5 in the journal Nature, by a team of researchers from the University of Oxford and
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