13-year-old boy corrects NASA… but is he correct?
By Antonio Marques • Apr 16th, 200813-year-old boy corrected NASA on estimates of asteroid Apophis colliding with Earth. But did he?
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New advances in Tuberculosis (TB) Research
By Antonio Marques • Jan 23rd, 2008A team from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, managed to shed some light into the function of an enzyme though to be an important target for therapeutics against the TB bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
First feline genome sequenced: cats meow into the Genetic Era
By Antonio Marques • Nov 2nd, 2007Cat is the seventh mammal to have it’s genome sequenced.
Dr. Mario Capecchi and Gene Targeting
By Antonio Marques • Oct 11th, 2007If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Dr. Mario Capecchi, together with Dr. Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin Evans were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the 2007 edition.
I’ve found this little video where Dr. Capecchi gives a light explanation of what consists the research [...]
Ig Nobel Prizes: the 2007 edition
By Antonio Marques • Oct 5th, 2007The Ig Nobel Prizes for 2007 have been awarded. Every one more stupid then the next.
