Ciencia en los medios
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A Step Toward Artificial Cells, Built from Silicon
In a step toward sophisticated artificial cells, scientists have engineered a silicon chip that can produce proteins from DNA, the most basic function of life.
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Seeing Inside Cells
Several teams reported on insights gleaned from live-cell images obtained through the use of super-resolution microscopy at this week’s American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual meeting held in Philadelphia.
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Prime Gap Grows After Decades-Long Lull
A year after tackling how close together prime number pairs can stay, mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can […]
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La evolución a vista de pájaro
Los genomas de 48 especies de aves revelan el Big Bang biológico tras la extinción de los dinosaurios
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Why women’s bodies abort males during tough times
In times of trouble, multiple studies have shown, more girls are born than boys. No one knows why, but men need not worry about being overrun by women. An analysis […]
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Visualizan por primera vez cómo se rompe la doble hélice de ADN
La rotura del ADN ocurre en procesos naturales como la reparación del material genético. Investigadores del CNIO han congelado cerca de 200 estructuras biológicas para ilustrar esta reacción química, que […]
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Skull of oldest horned dinosaur in North America found
Fossil from tiny plant eater, Aquilops americanus, suggests horned dinosaurs originated in Asia
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3 Questions: Ben Weiss on the lunar dynamo
The moon’s molten, churning core likely once generated a dynamo.
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Breast cancer prevention drug gives lasting protection, study finds
Taking the cancer drug tamoxifen for five years drives down the incidence of breast cancer in women at high risk for the disease by close to 30%, researchers have found. […]