Laboratories and Scientific Equipment
The Mysterious Dance of the Cricket Embryos
In June, 100 fruit fly scientists gathered on the Greek island of Crete for their biennial meeting. Among them was Cassandra Extavour, a Canadian geneticist at Harvard University. Her lab works with fruit flies to study evolution and development — “evo devo.” Most often, such scientists choose as their “model organism” the species Drosophila melanogaster […]
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U.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer Race
The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee, a milestone for the technology that plays a major role in science, medicine and other fields. Frontier, the name of the massive machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was declared on Monday to be the first to […]
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Will We Soon Be Eating Chicken Grown From Animal Cells?
The breast I ate came from tissue that had grown short meat fibers and had been pressed into plastic molds to approximate the size and shape of a small boneless breast. It had less chew but much more flavor than a typical grocery-store breast. The biggest difference was how the meat reacted in a pan. […]
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Covid-19 At-Home Testing and PCR, Rapid Testing Questions: What to Know
“If you can’t get tests, you have to decide how much risk you’re willing to take,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, professor and chairman of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “Would I still get together if I couldn’t find a test? In a relatively low risk situation, with everyone boosted […]
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C.D.C. Virus Tests Were Contaminated and Poorly Designed, Agency Says
The faulty coronavirus testing kits developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the early weeks of the pandemic were not only contaminated but had a basic design flaw, according to an internal review by the agency. Health officials had already acknowledged that the test kits were contaminated, but the internal report, whose […]
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