All cells come from pre-existing ones, an important aspect of cell theory that is universally accepted by biologists today. But where did that first cell come from? By what process…
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…in treatments with other isolated compounds from brevetoxins. Despite adding a known toxic and lethal compound to beakers with the surviving fish, the guppies surprisingly did not die. The first…
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…structure that you know should be there is all of a sudden found by the computer algorithm.” This biological model has been suggested for solving medical problems too, like modeling…
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…understandable than the other from a linguistics perspective. Research published by the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics looked to evaluate “the accuracy of Youtube’s automatically-generated captions…
…simplistic for realistic disease modeling. In vivo methods, such as rodent studies, are more representative, but lack complexity. This can create obstacles when scientists want to model human neurological disorders…
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…spin to represent and carry information, similar to the more familiar zeros and ones of electrical charge in computer logic. The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics for giant magnetoresistance recognized…
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…have effective anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties according to research by Jin Xu, Ying Huang, and their colleagues. Furthermore, extracts and isolated compounds have demonstrated antitumor activities, inhibiting the proliferation of…
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…birth defects, infection, age, or other factors. There are many manifestations of this debilitating condition such as valvular stenosis, when the heart valve cannot fully open, or a condition commonly…
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