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Points of science: a cultural proposal

Published at Nature Blogs Soapbox Science, 25 Jul 2012
"My dream is that by collaborating with Brazil’s inherently creative, scientifically curious and innovative culture, we can create a template that could be applied to the rest of the world." [online]

 

Your diet affects your grandchildren's DNA, studies say

Published 27 July 2012 on CBS News Online, By Christopher Wanjek
A group led by Randy Jirtle of Duke University demonstrated how mouse clones implanted as embryos in separate mothers will have radical differences in fur color, weight, and risk for chronic diseases depending on what that mother was fed during pregnancy.But what still is missing, is an understanding of how such information is remembered from generation to generation. Could it be due to epigenetic information? [online]

 

Physics nobelists tell of their prize-winning discoveries

In selections from the archives of Scientific American, physicists give firsthand accounts of their groundbreaking work. By John Matson and Ferris Jabr,
June 28, 2012 [online]