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Scientific American Magazine: At the Edge of Life's Code
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American On an airport shuttle bus to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Calif., Chris Wiggins took a colleague’s advice and opened a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. It had nothing to do with the talk on biopolymer physics he was invited to give. Rather the columns and rows of numbers that stared back at him referred to the genetic activity of budding yeast. Specifically, the numbers represented the amount of messenger RNA (mRNA) expressed by all 6,200 genes of the yeast over the course of its reproductive cycle. “It was the first time I ever saw anything like this,” Wiggins recalls of that spring day in 2002. “How do you begin to make sense of all these data?” |
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Scientific American Magazine: Double-Helix Double Up
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American Talk about spooky action at a distance. Without any other molecules to guide them, double helices of DNA with identical sequences can recognize one another from a distance and even gather together. |
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Scientific American Magazine: Let the Games Begin!
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American Scientific American’s resident skeptic Michael Shermer writes about the doping scandals plaguing cycling, baseball and other sports, and he suggests how to curb those practices. Please ignore him. It would be a global tragedy if his meddling were to ruin the most eagerly awaited competitions of 2008. |
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Scientific American Magazine: Attack on the Clones
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American Where would we be without bananas? The silent-movie industry, founded on images of men in bowler hats being launched into the air by banana skins, might never have gotten off the ground, so to speak. Kids would have to pack drippy citrus into their lunch boxes. The band Bananarama could have been the more fetid Apricotarota. When Shakespeare “let slip the dogs of war,” what do you think they slipped on? |
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Scientific American Magazine: Reviews
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American THE TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS |
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Scientific American Magazine: Updates.... Whatever Happened To?
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 22:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse spécialisée - Scientific American Nontoxic Nanotubes |
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On the Trail of the Cat, Scientists Find Surprises
Dimanche 16 Mars 2008 - 21:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) If cat owners know anything about their pets, it's how enigmatic the creatures can be. But scientists have begun to pull back the feline veil, using the latest molecular tools to get a peek at their origins. |
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Covering Your Own Health
Samedi 15 Mars 2008 - 21:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Health care insurance is key to a family's financial security, perhaps second only to a paycheck. For the vast majority of workers, medical coverage comes through an employer. But more employers, particularly smaller ones, say it is too expensive to provide health insurance for workers. As a resu... |
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Putting Mentally Disabled Workers at Risk Is No Way to Cut Corners
Samedi 15 Mars 2008 - 21:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Demolishing a building that dates back to the days of asbestos is a complicated business. You need to examine the construction method and, often, call in the men in white suits. |
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Keeping a Health Policy After You Leave Your Job
Samedi 15 Mars 2008 - 21:00 - 9 mois, 3 semaines depuis - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) If you have an employer's plan but are leaving the company: |
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