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- How Earth's oddest mammal got to be so bizarre
- A better pen-and-ink system for drawing flexible circuits
- Guinea baboons grunt with an accent
- Competitive athletics: Detecting CRISPR/Cas gene doping
| How Earth's oddest mammal got to be so bizarre Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:30 AM PST Often considered the world's oddest mammal, Australia's beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats milk, has venomous spurs and is even equipped with 10 sex chromosomes. Now, an international team of researchers has conducted a unique mapping of the platypus genome and found answers regarding the origins of a few of its stranger features. |
| A better pen-and-ink system for drawing flexible circuits Posted: 06 Jan 2021 10:30 AM PST Conductive ink is a great tool for printing flexible electronic circuits on surfaces. But these inks can be costly, they do not work on some materials, and devices to apply them can plug up. Now, scientists report that they have developed inexpensive conductive inks for clog-free ballpoint pens that can allow users to 'write' circuits almost anywhere -- even on human skin. |
| Guinea baboons grunt with an accent Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:57 AM PST Vocal learning leads to modification of call structure in a multi-level baboon society. |
| Competitive athletics: Detecting CRISPR/Cas gene doping Posted: 06 Jan 2021 08:57 AM PST All athletes want to be at the top of their game when they compete, but some resort to nefarious approaches to achieve peak muscle growth, speed and agility. Recent developments in gene editing technology could tempt athletes to change their DNA to get an edge. Now, researchers demonstrate first steps toward detecting this type of doping both in human plasma and in live mice. |
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