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Prions bad. Prion shaping good – for memory
Understanding how memory in the brain works remains one of the most difficult and insight-resistant issues in neuroscience. Also, like most things about the brain (human brains, any brains), the more...
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The shape of viral past influences today’s pandemics
Say you’re blindfolded and you’re given some kind of ball to identify. You turn it over in your hands. It’s relatively small. It’s very hard. It has pronounced seams with big stitching. You know it’s a...
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Using artificial photosynthesis (in a virus) to split water
In general, SciTechStory doesn’t start tracking a technology that’s (a) incomplete in implementation and (b) many years from application (if ever). Maybe this one is an exception: Using a virus to...
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Another new world: Seeing biology at the atomic level
From the first telescope, to the electrocardiograph (EKG), to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), advances in scientific instruments – the tools of the trade – can have a huge impact on the...
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Discovery: An immune system within cells
The human body has a pretty good immune system. Because it’s so crucial to our health, scientists and doctors have been studying the immune system intensely for a long time. A good deal is known about...
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If the vaccine developed by a team at Oxford University (UK) passes successfully through all the phases of human testing, this will really be big news. As it is, it is an enormously hopeful development...
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