Polymer physics reveals DNA loops are formed by single molecular motors

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...
Harvard Medical School

Massive Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Recent Human Evolution

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...
IEEE

LowPaxos: State Machine Replication for Low Resource Settings

Abstract: State Machine Replication (SMR) is a popular framework for building highly available fault-tolerant systems, and widely uses distributed consensus as an implementation approach. Consensus ...
Phys.org

New synthetic origin of replication lets multiple plasmids coexist in one bacterial cell

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," goes the old adage, which Rice University professor James Chappell completely ignored in a recent Nature Communications publication. In the study, Chappell describes ...
The Daily Dot

Newgrounds Roulette shuffles through the iconic (and sometimes forgotten) Flash animations of the early internet

A fun new website is bringing our nostalgia for Flash videos to the forefront by shuffling through classic Newgrounds animations. Although it originated in the 1990s, Newgrounds hit its stride in the ...
NPR

ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested

In late January, Ben and his wife Gabby were driving to their home in Northeast Minneapolis when they received a message on an activist group chat that federal immigration officers were nearby. They ...