Correction to: How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organismBrain deathDevelopmental concepts of an organismEvolutionary concepts of an organismOrganismal pluralismPhysiological concepts of an organism...
When considering selective forces shaping human evolution, the importance of pregnancy to fitness should not be underestimated. Although specific mortality factors may only impact upon a fraction of the population, birth is a funnel through which all individuals must pass. Human pregnancy places exceptio...
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in work evocative of films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inception, researchers discovered ways to manipulate specific memories in mice using optogenetics, a powerful technique that can trigger nerve cells in animals brains by zapping them with beams of laser ...
A.too much; much too B.too many; many too C.too much; too many D.much too; too much 30.—Bob, can you tell us ___? —Sure. You can check it on this computer. A.where can I get the information B.that I got the information C.how ...
This isn’t the only reason a cell can age—there are other stresses on cells we don’t yet understand very well—but short telomeres are one of the major reasons human cells grow old. We’ve devoted most of our careers to studying telomeres, and one extraordinary discovery from our labs...
By definition, you can't reason your way to anything really new, so you must journey into the unknown. 翻译: 如果你想发现新的事物,千里之行的第一步就是要学会与不确定性共存,并学会接受失败如常,因为寻找未知事物的风险...
Can a big, important country that has a major reserve currency like the US go broke—and, if so, what would that look like? 像美国这样拥有主要储备货币的重要大国会破产吗? Is there such a thing as a “Big Debt Cycle” that we can track that will tell us when to worry about debt an...
A fragile virus that can't survive outside the human body, HIV does not transmit through the air. It also can't be contracted like a cold or the flu from surface contact with, for instance, doorknobs or countertops. Its fragility makes the possibility of environmental transmission so remote...
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