As usual, the university press office distorts and over extrapolates what the paper actually accomplished.
Still cool though. This work traces back the types of transposons responsible for creating introns and identifies at least 8 (?) cases of horizontal transfer.
The medical implications are nought. We already know about the presence of introns and how variants in introns can sometimes cause disease by misdirecting splicing.
It’s slang for vagina in the US. But so is pussy, and we call people pussies all the time. It’s also misogynistic because it means they act like a girl.
So, I don’t know why cunt is so shunned.
In humans, the infrared contact lenses enabled participants to accurately detect flashing morse code-like signals and to perceive the direction of incoming infrared light.
Oh, yeah. That sounds like night vision.
That bitch?
It’s too bad Africans don’t have agency and therefore can’t reject these views from a minority of the West and make their own decisions.
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find.
Using fluorescent proteins is a first step because it is easy to verify that the transgene is expressed where you want it to be expressed.
The plane can’t land without those tires, so I guess that effectively grounds it.
No, this hasn’t happened to me. And it’s not because I can’t admit that I’m wrong. I just don’t get into arguments unless I am very well versed on the topic. If I’m not sufficiently versed, then I will do additional research before staking a position. I can confidently say that I have never had to reverse myself partway through because I always come from a position of thought and knowledge and don’t wade in lightly.
Except, now that I think about it, there was one time where I was completely mistaken on a political topic. I won’t go into details here, but I guess I really blew that. So just the one time.
Hmm, I’m remembering another incident upon reflecting on the first. I was in a rush and didn’t think about my position very carefully before calling the other guy a Nazi crybaby. Turns out his dad died fighting the Nazis in North Africa, and he had been carrying the mantle ever since.
But other than that, no, I have never reversed myself mid argument because I always think carefully before typing something out, especially if it is going to be long.
Saturn cheated by breaking regular moons up into many irregularly shaped moons with wonky orbits.
The truth is that there isn’t a strict definition of a moon like there is now for planets. The IAU has chickened out.
Yes. The paper is about transpose or elements which also featured in the Dawkins tome.