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Sunday, May 11, 2014

This week in biology/medicine (May 5-11, 2014)

Well, this week was pretty epic for cool new science!  Some highlights:

A 3D printer gave this little duck a new foot!


14 new species of dancing frogs were discovered, but they're going extinct!  Imagine how many species we might actually have missed.

The Black Death seems to have increased the fitness of the populations of Europe.  (Open Access)

Deficient mitochondria involved in autism.

Ferns got down with moss several hundreds of millions of years ago, picking up a gene for a hybrid light-detecting receptor.

Scientists may have figured out how to turn off fear.

A brain injury turned a man into a math genius!

Figure 1 Ampulex dementor n. sp., female, holotype, in oblique lateral view. Pin digitally removed from image.

A recently discovered wasp species was named for a Harry Potter creature (Ampulex dementor) (Open Access)

Though squid and human eyes evolved separately, they are the result of similar gene variants.

Did we find the fountain of youth in yeast?

"Green" jetfuel developed from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.

(new microscope)                        (scanning electron microscope)

A new microscope was invented that can get an even better resolution.

And a non-biology bonus: scientists in Germany have created a new element. AND the Sun's first sibling has been found.
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