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...team of Harvard researchers have recently developed a novel way to pinpoint, with greater accuracy than ever before, genetic mutations that drive evolution—and the new method of examining natural selection’s footprint may have tremendous implications for biomedicine and studies of human evolutionary history...
...next step, Chen said, would be to pinpoint the biological pathway responsible for the onset of the disease...
...decades, historians have relied on written and oral accounts to pinpoint the killings, but it wasn't until the commission began gathering forensic evidence in 2005 that the scope of each massacre became clearer. The South Korean military, for example, claimed in reports that more than 1,000 "communist guerrillas" were killed at Bulgap Mountain that night in February. But the excavation tells a different story. Investigators found 133 intact skeletons bending their knees and clutching their fingers behind their skulls - 21 were under 16 years old and nonmilitary artifacts like toys and hairpins were found, indicating the people were...
...after back-and-forth exchanges, it was the Engineers that broke through more often, riding their two-goal lead to a 7-5 victory. Although Atkinson could not pinpoint specific differences between the playoff contest and the regular season meeting between the squads, he credited MIT for peaking at the right time...
Although it’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of this new group of information-age readers, recent innovations in the publishing world confirm—if not explain—its existence. Meet the “vook,” which, according to a description on the company’s website, “is a new innovation in reading that blends a well-written book, high-quality video and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.” Recently, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, has teamed up with...