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"We tend to think of protists (single-celled organisms) as 'simple' and humans as 'complex' -- but the Naegleria genome shows us that much of this complexity arose really early in evolution," said Scott Dawson, assistant professor of microbiology at UC Davis. Dawson is senior author on the paper analyzing the genome of Naegleria gruberi, published in the March issue of the journal Cell. The team also included UC Davis graduate students Michael Cipriano and Jonathan Pham. Dawson had initially proposed N. gruberi as a candidate for genome sequencing back in 2004 while he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley. N. gruberi slurps around in mud as an amoeba but when food runs low it sprouts two whip-like tails, or flagellae, and swims rapidly away. It can also transform into a hard, resistant cyst to wait out bad conditions. Most previous efforts to sequence the genomes of protozoa have focused on parasitic organisms such as the malaria parasite. "Because it's free living, it can tell us a lot about early life -- it has genes to do all these different things," Dawson said. The analysis shows that N. gruberi has 15,727 genes that code for proteins, compared to about 23,000 in humans. With those genes, the organism can eat and reproduce, crawl or swim, live with or without oxygen, and organize itself internally much as a human cell does.

From fossil evidence, it appears that life may have existed on Earth as early as 3.5 billion years ago. This suggests that life must have evolved sometime during Earth's tumultuous first billion years.

According to research, the universe is approximately 13.8 billion years old.

The tablet-based app, called CHAMP (Cardiac High-Acuity Monitoring Program)

Previously, patients were monitored with a paper-based, "three-ring binder" system, which created a heavy responsibility for families, was hard to maintain accurately and was difficult to share with physicians in a timely manner when rapid interventions may be necessary. In contrast, the app gathers both automated and manually-entered data that is directly fed into a database and the EMR for constant monitoring and analysis by their care team. This includes oxygen saturation levels measured by a Bluetooth pulse oximeter, manually-entered weight and feeding logs, and 15-second videos of breathing that have proven invaluable to doctors as they monitor their patients' healing.

Despite its benefits, technology is still a disruptive innovation, as well as an expensive one. Faculty members are forced to invest time in learning new approaches with little budget support. With technology, students are more than ever engaged in creating their own knowledge

Social networking is now used as a tool for supporting career activates and building connections with alumni.

For instance, MagnifyMoney.com recently released survey data that showed that 42.4 percent of Americans carry credit card debt: $10,902: Average balance for those with credit card debt. $8,864: Average credit card balance for millennials. $12,026: Average credit card balance for Generation X. Those numbers, while based on a survey of 1,435 people in April, are not far off from numbers reported by NerdWallet.com that are based on government data, including Federal Reserve statistics. $7,087: Average household credit card debt. $15,191: Average balance for households that have any credit card debt.

ccording to recent research the color, shape, taste and even name of a tablet or pill can have an effect on how patients feel about their medication.

Choose an appropriate combination and the placebo effect gives the pill a boost, improves outcomes and might even reduce side effects.

Strangely, they found that 14 percent of people think of pink tablets as tasting sweeter than red tablets whereas a yellow tablet is perceived as salty irrespective of its actual ingredients. 11% thought of white or blue tablets as tasting bitter and 10% said orange-colored tablets were sour.