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Plants that clean the air in the house
Biology

Plants that clean the air in the house

Planting a pot of ivy, orchid, or betel nut ... will help the indoor air much healthier, and you will reduce the risk of cancer. Please refer to the healthy home grown p…

December 16, 2018
Vietnam separates stem cells from mouse embryos
Biology

Vietnam separates stem cells from mouse embryos

Associate Professor Nguyen Mong Hung and his colleagues from the Department of Biology, University of Natural Sciences (Hanoi) have succeeded in separating and cultivati…

December 16, 2018
How Does Memory Work?
Biology

How Does Memory Work?

Memory is not a single storage box; it is a set of brain processes that encode information, stabilize it over time, and reconstruct it during retrieval using distributed…

December 15, 2018
What Is CRISPR and How Does Gene Editing Work?
Biology

What Is CRISPR and How Does Gene Editing Work?

CRISPR is a family of gene-editing tools adapted from microbial defense systems. In a common CRISPR-Cas9 setup, a guide RNA directs a Cas protein to a matching DNA seque…

December 15, 2018