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Networks Untangle Malaria’s Deadly Shuffle
...reveals a paradoxical stability in these genes. In a recent paper in Nature Communications, they show that while var genes themselves are never repeated, short sequences of DNA in them...
The Shape-Shifting Army Inside Your Cells
...the related Abstractions post: How Viruses May Have Led to Complex Life More recently, however, biologists have begun paying attention to these shapeshifters. Their findings are tearing down the structure-function...
Is Nature Unnatural?
...from the Institute for Advanced Study in nearby Princeton, N.J. With his dark, shoulder-length hair shoved behind his ears, Arkani-Hamed laid out the dual, seemingly contradictory implications of recent experimental...
Classical Computing Embraces Quantum Ideas
...can help you solve problems in new ways.” In recent years, quantum ideas have helped researchers prove the security of promising data encryption schemes called lattice-based cryptosystems, some applications of...
In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
...it had left recently, he would slow down, letting passengers accumulate at the next stop. If it had departed long ago, he sped up to keep other buses from passing...
The Surprising Origins of Life’s Complexity
...from simpler ones, step-by-step, through a gradual evolutionary process, with Darwinian selection favoring intermediate forms along the way. But recently some scholars have proposed that complexity can arise by other...
In the Hunt for Dark Matter, Promises to Keep?
...Small wonder that he opened a recent talk with a slide paraphrasing “The Big Lebowski”: “We are nihilists. We believe nothing.” “We seem to be chasing our tails for the...
Decoding Flu Viruses Before an Outbreak
...mysteries. Recent studies of H7N9 show that it can pass among ferrets, which are often used to model human flu transmission. If the virus gains the ability to spread easily...
RNA’s Secret Life Outside the Cell
...and translating the code of life. The reasons for these molecular voyages have remained mysterious, but in recent years evidence has accrued that this extracellular RNA may have a different...