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Researchers propose a better way to make sense of 'Big Data'
Big Data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. Companies collect information on how we…
Solving An Evolutionary Puzzle
For four decades, waste from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into the waters of New Bedford Harbor—an 18,000-acre estuary and busy seaport. The harbor,…
UNC study reveals potential route to bladder cancer diagnostics, treatments
Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis of invasive bladder cancer tumors to discover that the disease shares…
Attractive professional cyclists are faster
In a range of species, females show clear preferences when it comes to the choice of their partner – they decide on the basis of external features like antler…
Newly discovered signaling pathway could impact a variety of autoinflammatory diseases
Their findings offer insight into the role that activation of interferon-regulatory factor 1 (IRF1), a protein that functions as a transcriptional activator of…
Brain development – the pivotal role of the stem cell environment
Higher mammals, such as humans, have markedly larger brains than other mammals. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics…