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Well this dude sounds like a winner. Who WOULDN’T fall in in love with him? Businessman pays fortune teller $210,000 for love spell: cops – NY Daily News. Jose Laparra, president of Club Deportivo Castellon between 2005 and 2011, was arrested last week for allegedly trying to force the clairvoyant to hand back the majority of the cash. Spanish media reports the 46-year-old – also implicated in the cash-for-contracts Gurtel case, one of Spain’s biggest ever corruption […]
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Yesterday, a monster tornado almost 2-miles wide tore through Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, wiping out entire blocks and killing 24 people.
The National Weather Service upgraded its calculation of the storm's strength today, declaring it was a rare EF5, the most powerful ranking on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, and had winds exceeding 200 miles per hour and left a trail of destruction measuring about 17 miles long. Debris from the tornado fell as far as 100 miles away, reaching
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A constant vibration keeps them up at night and is causing distress. Herbrandston residents ‘tortured’ by mystery low frequency noise. A group of Herbrandston residents have reached breaking point after a ‘torturous’ mystery noise made life in the village a ‘living hell’. Jane and Steve Ingram said life at their quiet Herbrandston home became unbearable when a low, drowning noise started keeping them awake at night. Over the last few years the noise has been […]
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Proteins may be more of a factor in shaping regulatory patterns than environment, according to a new study that looks at how cells' protein networks relate to a bacteria's genome.
The lab of computer scientist Luay Nakhleh ar Rice University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that when environmental factors are eliminated from an evolutionary model, mutations and genetic drift can give rise to the patterns that appear. They studied changes that show up in
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Early developmental stages of Xenopus laevis embryos. This is a frog commonly used in biological labs, and the favorite amphibian of Nobel Prize winner John Gurdon, whose work on these embryos led to this week’s announcement of human embryonic stem cells made from somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Half a century apart, it’s all connected.
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Following on from the initial scandalous revelations from the Godolphin stable (see post here), the fallout has continued. Here’s a brief update with results of further tests revealed yesterday. The original story had...
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I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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“On its own, it is a wonder, but viewed in isolation its complexity and very existence is inexplicable. Darwin’s genius was to see that the existence of something as magnificent as a blade of grass can be understood, but only in the context of its interaction with other living things and, crucially, its evolutionary history. A physicist might say it is a four-dimensional structure, with both spatial and temporal extent, and it is simply impossible to comprehend the existence of such a
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When I post something like this.
Oh hey, Tumblr … I know you’re a microblogging service but you don’t mind if I fill your dashboard with a super-long post on human stem cell discoveries, do you? Because I just love them too much.
The only rule in blogging is there are no rules.
Besides, we all like to learn, don’t we? :)
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ES from SCNT: Another Human Stem Cell Milestone
Human embryonic stem cells have been created using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) for the first time. Interestingly, SCNT might be the oldest genetic reprogramming technology in our biological arsenal, but its use in creating human ES cells has proven elusive.
We’ll get to the news in a moment, but first some history. In 1958, John Gurdon made a frog from a tadpole.
“Congratulations, John, that’s how frogs are
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