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65 YEARS AGO
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
65 years ago three scientists at The Rockefeller University Hospital discovered the chemical basis of heredity, launching the era of molecular biology
Published by: The Rockefeller University
60 YEARS AGO
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
60 years ago three Rockefeller University scientists solved a revolutionary scientific mystery.
What is the chemical basis of heredity? While some scientists suggested DNA, other researchers countered that the more complex...
Published by: The Rockefeller University
DNA evidence of bowhead whale exploitation by Greenlandic Paleo-Inuit 4,000 years ago.
Frederik Valeur Seersholm, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Martin Jensen Søe, Hussein Shokry, Sarah Siu Tze Mak, Anthony Ruter, Maanasa Raghavan, William Fitzhugh, Kurt H Kjær, Eske Willerslev, Morten Meldgaard, Christian MO Kapel, Anders Johannes Hansen
Sep 08, 2018
The demographic history of Greenland is characterized by recurrent migrations and extinctions since the first humans arrived 4,500 years ago. Our current understanding of these extinct cultures relies primarily on preserved...
Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago.
Huw S Groucutt, Rainer Grün, Iyad AS Zalmout, Nick A Drake, Simon J Armitage, Ian Candy, Richard Clark-Wilson, Julien Louys, Paul S Breeze, Mathieu Duval, Laura T Buck, Tracy L Kivell, Emma Pomeroy, Nicholas B Stephens, Jay T Stock, Mathew Stewart, Gilbert J Price, Leslie Kinsley, Wing Wai Sung, Abdullah Alsharekh, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Muhammad Zahir, Abdullah M Memesh, Ammar J Abdulshakoor, Abdu M Al-Masari, Ahmed A Bahameem, Khaled MS Al Murayyi, Badr Zahrani, Eleanor LM Scerri, Michael D Petraglia
Jul 19, 2018
Understanding the timing and character of the expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa is critical for inferring the colonization and admixture processes that underpin global population history. It has been argued that dispersal...
Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago.
Simon Rasmussen, Morten Erik Allentoft, Kasper Nielsen, Ludovic Orlando, Martin Sikora, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Anders Gorm Pedersen, Mikkel Schubert, Alex Van Dam, Christian Moliin Outzen Kapel, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Søren Brunak, Pavel Avetisyan, Andrey Epimakhov, Mikhail Viktorovich Khalyapin, Artak Gnuni, Aivar Kriiska, Irena Lasak, Mait Metspalu, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Andrei Gromov, Dalia Pokutta, Lehti Saag, Liivi Varul, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Robert A Foley, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Rasmus Nielsen, Kristian Kristiansen, Eske Willerslev
Sep 20, 2018
The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of plague and has caused human pandemics with millions of deaths in historic times. How and when it originated remains contentious. Here, we report the oldest direct evidence...
How to measure chimpanzee party size? A methodological comparison.
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) live in fission-fusion societies where community members form temporary parties that frequently change in size and composition. Chimpanzee party size and composition have been widely studied to...
Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago.
Eugene I Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S Lane, Thalassa Matthews, Curtis W Marean
May 25, 2018
Approximately 74 thousand years ago (ka), the Toba caldera erupted in Sumatra. Since the magnitude of this eruption was first established, its effects on climate, environment and humans have been debated. Here we describe the...
One hundred years ago
Emilio Fernandez-Egea
Mar 28, 2019
A footpath in the Square de la Tour Saint-Jacques in Paris is named for the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (1889–1950). It was in the nearby Théâtre du Châtelet that the ‘God of Dance’ astounded audiences and scandalized critics with...
Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago
R. Genzel, N. M.Förster Schreiber, H. Übler, P. Lang, T. Naab, R. Bender, L. J. Tacconi, E. Wisnioski, S. Wuyts, T. Alexander, A. Beifiori, S. Belli, G. Brammer, A. Burkert, C. M. Carollo, J. Chan, R. Davies, M. Fossati, A. Galametz, S. Genel, O. Gerhard, D. Lutz, J. T. Mendel, I. Momcheva, E. J. Nelson, A. Renzini, R. Saglia, A. Sternberg, S. Tacchella, K. Tadaki, D. Wilman
Mar 16, 2017
In the cold dark matter cosmology, the baryonic components of galaxies - stars and gas - are thought to be mixed with and embedded in non-baryonic and non-relativistic dark matter, which dominates the total mass of the galaxy...
Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago
R. Genzel, N. M.Förster Schreiber, H. Übler, P. Lang, T. Naab, R. Bender, L. J. Tacconi, E. Wisnioski, S. Wuyts, T. Alexander, A. Beifiori, S. Belli, G. Brammer, A. Burkert, C. M. Carollo, J. Chan, R. Davies, M. Fossati, A. Galametz, S. Genel, O. Gerhard, D. Lutz, J. T. Mendel, I. Momcheva, E. J. Nelson, A. Renzini, R. Saglia, A. Sternberg, S. Tacchella, K. Tadaki, D. Wilman
Mar 16, 2017
In the cold dark matter cosmology, the baryonic components of galaxies - stars and gas - are thought to be mixed with and embedded in non-baryonic and non-relativistic dark matter, which dominates the total mass of the galaxy...
Genome-Wide Decoding of mRNP and miRNA Maps
Sung Wook Chi
Jan 01, 0001
The limited number of primary transcripts in the genome has promoted interest in the possibility that much of the complexity in the regulation of gene expression may be determined by RNA regulation controlled by RNA-binding...
RNA complexity RNA regulation study mRNP maps miRNA maps HITS-CLIP Nova-RNA interactions Life Sciences
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Princeton Organist Eric Plutz Records CD on David B. Johnson Memorial Organ
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The organ is nearly 60 years old and was crafted by G. Donald Harrison of the famous Aeolian-Skinner Company. The organ was restored a few years ago.
Published by: Winthrop University
Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse.
Thomas Cucchi, Katerina Papayianni, Sophie Cersoy, Laetitia Aznar-Cormano, Antoine Zazzo, Régis Debruyne, Rémi Berthon, Adrian Bălășescu, Alan Simmons, François Valla, Yannis Hamilakis, Fanis Mavridis, Marjan Mashkour, Jamshid Darvish, Roohollah Siahsarvi, Fereidoun Biglari, Cameron A Petrie, Lloyd Weeks, Alireza Sardari, Sepideh Maziar, Christiane Denys, David Orton, Emma Jenkins, Melinda Zeder, Jeremy B Searle, Greger Larson, François Bonhomme, Jean-Christophe Auffray, Jean-Denis Vigne
Jul 06, 2020
The house mouse (Mus musculus) represents the extreme of globalization of invasive mammals. However, the timing and basis of its origin and early phases of dispersal remain poorly documented. To track its synanthropisation and...
Winthrop Board Approves 1/2 Percent Tuition Increase
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
HIGHLIGHTS In-state undergraduate students will pay $38 more in the fall as tuition rises from $7,615 per semester to $7,653. Out-of-state students will pay $14,818 this fall semester -- $75 more than a year ago.
Published by: Winthrop University
Chemistry Major Michala Tesney Explores Crystallography Research at St. Jude
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Tesney is a chemistry major from Summerville, South Carolina. She began her protein crystallography research at Winthrop more than a year ago.
Published by: Winthrop University
RNA Dynamics in T Cell Activation
Emily Conn Gantman
Jan 01, 0001
Eukaryotic cells employ multiple posttranscriptional mechanisms to fine tune gene expression programs in response to external signals. Regulation of messenger RNA and microRNA by RNA-binding proteins is critical to the control...
Published by: Rockefeller University
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
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We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ∼ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space...
SL Finkelstein, MB Bagley, PA Haro, M Dickinson, HC Ferguson, JS Kartaltepe, C Papovich, D Burgarella, DD Kocevski, M Huertas-Company, KG Iyer, AM Koekemoer, RL Larson, PG Pérez-González, C Rose, S Tacchella, SM Wilkins, K Chworowsky, A Medrano, AM Morales, RS Somerville, LY Aaron Yung, A Fontana, M Giavalisco, A Grazian, NA Grogin, LJ Kewley, A Kirkpatrick, P Kurczynski, JM Lotz, L Pentericci, N Pirzkal, S Ravindranath, RE Ryan, JR Trump, G Yang, O Almaini, RO Amorín, M Annunziatella, BE Backhaus, G Barro, P Behroozi, EF Bell, R Bhatawdekar, L Bisigello, V Bromm, V Buat, F Buitrago, A Calabrò, CM Casey, M Castellano, ÓA Chávez Ortiz, L Ciesla, NJ Cleri, SH Cohen, JW Cole, KC Cooke, MC Cooper, AR Cooray, L Costantin, IG Cox, D Croton, E Daddi, R Davé, A De La Vega, A Dekel, D Elbaz, V Estrada-Carpenter, SM Faber, V Fernández, KD Finkelstein, J Freundlich, S Fujimoto, Á García-Argumánez, JP Gardner, E Gawiser, C Gómez-Guijarro, Y Guo, K Hamblin, TS Hamilton, NP Hathi, BW Holwerda, M Hirschmann, TA Hutchison, AE Jaskot, SW Jha, S Jogee, S Juneau, I Jung, SA Kassin, A Le Bail, GCK Leung, RA Lucas, B Magnelli, KB Mantha, J Matharu, EJ McGrath, DH McIntosh, E Merlin, B Mobasher
Dec 08, 2022
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ~ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Following conservative selection criteria, we...
Metaphysics, science, and religion
NM Deng
Jan 04, 2017
I found this book interesting and rewarding, as well as a real pleasure to read. It’s a sustained defense of a rather provocative thesis, using original arguments in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of time, space...
Reevaluating the evidence for a Hadean-Eoarchean dynamo.
Cauê S Borlina, Benjamin P Weiss, Eduardo A Lima, Fengzai Tang, Richard J M Taylor, Joshua F Einsle, Richard J Harrison, Roger R Fu, Elizabeth A Bell, Ellen W Alexander, Heather M Kirkpatrick, Matthew M Wielicki, T Mark Harrison, Jahandar Ramezani, Adam C Maloof
May 16, 2020
The time of origin of the geodynamo has important implications for the thermal evolution of the planetary interior and the habitability of early Earth. It has been proposed that detrital zircon grains from Jack Hills, Western...
Published by: Science advances
Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse
Thomas Cucchi, Katerina Papayianni, Sophie Cersoy, Laetitia Aznar-Cormano, Antoine Zazzo, Régis Debruyne, Rémi Berthon, Adrian Bălășescu, Alan Simmons, François Valla, Yannis Hamilakis, Fanis Mavridis, Marjan Mashkour, Jamshid Darvish, Roohollah Siahsarvi, Fereidoun Biglari, Cameron A. Petrie, Lloyd Weeks, Alireza Sardari, Sepideh Maziar, Christiane Denys, David Orton, Emma Jenkins, Melinda Zeder, Jeremy B. Searle, Greger Larson, François Bonhomme, Jean-Christophe Auffray, Jean-Denis Vigne
May 20, 2021
Abstract: The house mouse (Mus musculus) represents the extreme of globalization of invasive mammals. However, the timing and basis of its origin and early phases of dispersal remain poorly documented. To track its...
Winthrop to Celebrate Organ Restoration with August Festival
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
The festival will include four free public concerts Aug. 13-16. The D.B. Johnson Memorial Organ was installed in Byrnes Auditorium 54 years ago.
Published by: Winthrop University
Winthrop to Host Charlotte Chapter AGO Recital on Aug. 8
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Parker, a native of Charlotte, N.C., will perform a concert of works by Bach, Franck and Stanford. The concert, held at 7 p.m. in Byrnes Auditorium, is free and open to the public.
Published by: Winthrop University
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
We report the discovery of a candidate galaxy with a photo-z of z ~ 12 in the first epoch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey. Following conservative selection criteria, we...
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