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RandomFactor writes:Previously collected ice cores taken from a Tibetan glacier have revealed 28 new genera of viruses according to researchers from Ohio State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.A genus (plural genera) in biology encompasses multiple species. For example, Lions and Tigers (not bears) belong to the genus PantheraThe ice cores had not been protected from surface contamination when collected from the Guliya ice cap (northwestern Tibetan Plateau, China), so it was first necessary to establish "ultra-clean microbial and viral sampling procedures for glacier ice."
RandomFactor writes:Research published in the journal Protein and Cell shows a combination of two experimental drugs reversing the effects of osteoarthritus in rats (as well as in human cartilage cell cultures).
RandomFactor writes:Researchers at Ohio State University have published details in the journal Nature Chemistry on a molecule that efficiently absorbs light across the visible spectrum (and into both the ultraviolet and infrared) and catalyzes the production of Hydrogen.The scientists demonstrate
canopic jug submitted this article:Steven Bellovin, Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University writes briefly with a concrete example of how the Y2038 threat works.