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"Es gibt tatsächlich etwas, das genetische Integrität heißt. Bei Pflanzensorten, die schon existieren und die sich wenig verändern sollten, wenn man sie vermehrt. Das ist wichtig für den Erhalt der Biodiversität. In der Pflanzenzucht aber geht es immer um Veränderung. Sie ist das Fundament, auf dem sich bessere Sorten mit neuen Eigenschaften entwickeln lassen, eine größere Vielfalt. Da ist es vom Grundsatz her egal, ob man im Klostergarten Erbsen miteinander kreuzt, um dickere Schoten zu generieren. Oder ob man in einem Hightech-Labor mit Genscheren wie Crispr-Cas9 den Code im Erbgut der Hülsenfrüchte umschreibt. Keiner der Prozesse schützt die genetische Integrität der Erbse. Beide Vorgänge bringen das gleiche Ergebnis. Nur dass moderne Gentechniken schneller sind, Ressourcen schonen, weniger Kollateralschäden im Erbgut erzeugen."

Through this website, we will continue, unify, and expand NASA's open source activities. The site will serve to surface existing projects, provide a forum for discussing projects and processes, and guide internal and external groups in open development, release, and contribution.

Tabula will be platform and content agnostic, working with as many brands and versions of tablet computers as possible. Of course, compatibility takes coding hours, so we'll start with one or two platforms and build from there. But let's just say we fully recognize the value of high-end and lower-cost hardware when it comes to solutions to help schools thrive.

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Our genetic code is translated by two super-families of modern-day enzymes. Carter's research team created and superimposed digital three-dimensional versions of the two super-families to see how their structures aligned. Carter found that all the enzymes have virtually identical cores that can be extracted to produce "molecular fossils" he calls Urzymes-Ur meaning earliest or original. The other parts, he said, are variations that were introduced later, as evolution unfolded. These two Urzymes are as close as scientists have gotten to the actual ancient enzymes that would have populated the Earth billions of years ago.

"Classroom for GitHub automates repository creation and access control, making it easy to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub."

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app's behavior.

"It's the early 1980s, and you're an equipment manufacturer for the fledgling personal-computer market. For years, modems that send data over the telephone lines have been stuck at a maximum rate of 9.6 kilobits per second: if you try to increase the rate, an intolerable number of errors creeps into the data."

"A new genetic biomarker that indicates an increased risk for developing breast cancer can be found in an individual's "junk" (non-coding) DNA, according to a new study featuring work from researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and their colleagues."

ScienceDaily (May 9, 2011) - Mayo Clinic researchers have designed a new tool for identifying protein function from genetic code. A team led by Stephen Ekker, Ph.D., succeeded in switching individual genes off and on in zebrafish, then observing embryonic and juvenile development. The study appears in the journal Nature Methods.

Theodore Berger and his team at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a neural prosthesis for rats that is able to restore their ability to form long-term memories after they had been pharmacologically blocked. In a dramatic demonstration, Berger blocked the ability to rats to form long-term memories by using pharmacological agents to disrupt the neural circuitry that communicates between two subregions of the hippocampus, CA1 and CA3, which interact to create long-term memory, prior research has shown. The rats were unable to remember which lever to pull to gain a reward, or could only remember for 5-10 seconds, when previously they could remember for a long period of time. The researchers then developed an artificial hippocampal system that could duplicate the pattern of interaction between CA3-CA1 interactions. Long-term memory capability returned to the pharmacologically blocked rats when the team activated the electronic device programmed to duplicate the memory-encoding function. The researchers went on to show that if a prosthetic device and its associated electrodes were implanted in animals with a normal, functioning hippocampus, the device could actually strengthen the memory being generated internally in the brain and enhance the memory capability of normal rats. "These integrated experimental modeling studies show for the first time that with sufficient information about the neural coding of memories, a neural prosthesis capable of real-time identification and manipulation of the encoding process can restore and even enhance cognitive mnemonic processes," says the paper. Next steps, according to Berger and Deadwyler, will be attempts to duplicate the rat results in primates (monkeys), with the aim of eventually creating prostheses that might help human victims of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, or injury recover function. Ref.: "A Cortical Neural Prosthesis for Restoring and Enhancing

"HTTP/2 is a replacement for how HTTP is expressed "on the wire." It is not a ground-up rewrite of the protocol; HTTP methods, status codes and semantics are the same, and it should be possible to use the same APIs as HTTP/1.x (possibly with some small additions) to represent the protocol."

Microbes are preferably suitable for joint biochemical as well as genetic research and studies and have been effective in providing evidence about the genetic code and the regulation of gene activity.

Through synergistic reaction of various enzymes system on fibers: enzymes used in paper industry makes the fibers separate effectively and open the fiber code, soften availably the fibroblast and increase the permeability of fibers, and have the fibers suck the water fully, leveling up the beating effect and lowering down its consumption.

"The rapid improvement in DNA sequencing has sparked a big data revolution in genomic sciences, which has in turn led to a proliferation of bioinformatics tools. To date, these tools have encountered little adversarial pressure. This paper evaluates the robustness of such tools if (or when ) adversarial attacks manifest. We demonstrate, for the first time, the synthesis of DNA which - when sequenced and processed - gives an at- tacker arbitrary remote code execution. To study the feasibility of creating and synthesizing a DNA-based exploit, we performed our attack on a modified down- stream sequencing utility with a deliberately introduced vulnerability. "

"The Wekinator allows users to build new interactive systems by demonstrating human actions and computer responses, instead of writing programming code."

The Best Online Computer Science Class for High Schools.

"Computer science (CS) education is a pathway to innovation, to creativity and to exciting career opportunities. We believe that all students deserve these opportunities. That is why Google is committed to developing programs, resources, tools and community partnerships which make CS engaging and accessible for all students."