James Whitmore
When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 million years ago, however, a tiny yet freakishly fearsome predator impaled its … [+2963 chars]
On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery released a marvel into low-Earth orbit: the Hubble Space Telescope. Named after the pioneering astronomer Edwin Hubble, this orbital observatory has sin… [+5249 chars]
NASA’s upcoming missions to the Moon are set to be a lot more chilly than the Apollo program, and the agency is working to figure out how to keep its astronauts snug when visiting the permanently sha… [+5218 chars]
Images taken by a NASA satellite this week reveal the worrying extent of a fast-moving wildfire in southern New Jersey. Taken during the fires second day, the images capture plumes of smoke and scor… [+2109 chars]
Satellite observations had shown alternating stripes of light-colored and dark-colored rock in this area. In late March, Perseverance excavated one of the light-colored formations and collected a sam… [+1465 chars]
Sharks might not be as responsible for rare human bites as we assumed. In a study released today, scientists argue that at least some shark bites should be considered a form of self-defense. Marine … [+4771 chars]
While tools like CRISPR have blown the field of genome hacking wide open, being able to predict what will happen when you tinker with the code underlying the living things on our planet is still tric… [+1344 chars]
Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDN… [+1487 chars]
In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote itthat the high-dimensional space in which large la… [+5623 chars]
Here, we integrated imaging with both spatial (DamID, TSA-seq) and functional (Repli-seq, RNA-seq) genomic readouts across four human cell lines. Overall, our results significantly extend previous nu… [+9016 chars]
To classify reads from each pore, the alignment was first performed against the reference plasmid p i and the query sequence q k from each pore using the same parameters as described in the pre-s… [+19716 chars]
The human genome is like a big ball of yarn, made up of 3 billion molecular units arranged in sequence and then wrapped up around itself. Within this ball of yarn are your genes, which are regions of… [+8427 chars]
The human genome is like a big ball of yarn, made up of 3 billion molecular units arranged in sequence and then wrapped up around itself. Within this ball of yarn are your genes, which are regions of… [+8427 chars]
To classify reads from each pore, the alignment was first performed against the reference plasmid p i and the query sequence q k from each pore using the same parameters as described in the pre-s… [+19716 chars]
Here, we integrated imaging with both spatial (DamID, TSA-seq) and functional (Repli-seq, RNA-seq) genomic readouts across four human cell lines. Overall, our results significantly extend previous nu… [+9016 chars]
Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDN… [+1487 chars]
This translational study demonstrates that testicular microcalcifications, both benign and malignant, occur secondary to changes in gonadal phosphate homeostasis and are often accompanied by a subseq… [+12589 chars]
In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote itthat the high-dimensional space in which large la… [+5623 chars]