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How learning a "dead language" can make you a better programmer

Dead languages aren't as unimportant as they seem, because learning Latin, Sanskrit and Ancient Greek will make coding easier ...
eLife

Contractile peri-nuclear actomyosin network repositions peripheral and polar chromosomes to promote early kinetochore–microtubule interactions

This important study demonstrates that a peri-nuclear actomyosin network, present in some types of human cells, facilitates kinetochore-spindle attachment of chromosomes in unfavorable locations - ...
Nature

Conditional control of gene expression in the mouse

Temporal and spatial control of gene expression in the mouse can be achieved using binary transgenic systems, in which gene expression is controlled by the interaction of an effector protein product ...
Nature

Quantitative expression of Oct-3/4 defines differentiation, dedifferentiation or self-renewal of ES cells

Figure 1: Generation of ES cells with variable Oct-3/4 expression. Figure 4: Comparison of gene-expression pattern during differentiation of ZHBTc4 and ZHTc6 ES cells. These findings establish that ...