Archive for June, 2018

The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles – The New York Times

Saturday, June 30th, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/science/descending-testicles-evolution.html?smtyp=cur

How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds – The New York Times

Saturday, June 30th, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/28/science/human-age-limit.html

The creation and selection of mutations resistant to a gene drive over multiple generations in the malaria mosquito

Friday, June 29th, 2018

Creation & selection of mutations resistant to a #GeneDrive over mult. generations in the malaria mosquito
http://journals.PLoS.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007039 Indels created by #NHEJ-based repair of DS breaks give rise to resistance (probably resulting from mis-matches due to
micro-homologies near breakpts)

Toyota takes a winding road to autonomous vehicles – Speed limited

Friday, June 29th, 2018

https://www.economist.com/business/2018/05/19/toyota-takes-a-winding-road-to-autonomous-vehicles

12 Companies That Could Thrive in the Age of Amazon

Friday, June 29th, 2018

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“He cites the example of Target (TGT), which “recently began testing replenishing stores and digital orders from the same pool of inventory with one of its distribution centers in the Northeast and saw a 33% reduction in back room inventory for these stores while also reducing stock-outs by 50%.

In fact, the switch to centralized inventory is key to his switching his view on Macy’s from “short” to “long”:”
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https://www.barrons.com/articles/12-companies-that-could-thrive-in-the-age-of-amazon-1528228978

Mining molecular gastronomy

Friday, June 29th, 2018

Mining #MolecularGastronomy
http://www.Nature.com/news/mining-molecular-gastronomy-1.9658 “Suggestion that the reason some #foods go well together is because they contain the same flavour molecules… networks to link flavour compounds w. ingredients found in 1 Korean & 2 American…recipe DBs”
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“Ahnert, himself an amateur molecular gastronomist, was intrigued by the anecdotal suggestion that the reason some foods go well together is because they contain the same flavour molecules. He and his team therefore developed networks to link flavour compounds with the ingredients found in one Korean and two American online recipe databases, grouping recipes into North American, Western European, Latin American, Southern European or East Asian cuisine.”
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The creation and selection of mutations resistant to a gene drive over multiple generations in the malaria mosquito

Friday, June 29th, 2018

Creation & selection of mutations resistant to a #GeneDrive over mult. generations in the malaria mosquito
http://journals.PLoS.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007039 Indels created by #NHEJ-based repair of DS breaks give rise to resistance (probably resulting from mis-matches due to
micro-homologies near breakpts)

A Road Map to Shopping Like a Royal in London – The New York Times

Friday, June 29th, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/travel/royal-warrant-shopping-britain.html

Hatchards
Royal Booksellers
187 Piccadilly
London
hatchards.co.uk

Paxton & Whitfield
Royal Cheesemonger
93 Jermyn Street
London
paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk

Prestat
Royal Purveyors of Chocolates
14 Princes Arcade
London
prestat.co.uk

FLORIS
Royal Perfumers
Royal Manufacturers of Toilet Preparations
89 Jermyn Street, St. James’s
London
florislondon.com

Scientists discover an early modern human with a recent neanderthal ancestor

Friday, June 29th, 2018

https://phys.org/news/2015-07-scientists-early-modern-human-neanderthal.html

Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

Friday, June 29th, 2018

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5003663/

I. Lazaridis et al., “Genomic Insights into the Origin of Farming in the Ancient Near East,” Nature 536 (2016): 419–24