Genetic mutations which occur naturally during the earliest stages of an embryo’s development can cause the severe birth defect spina bifida, finds a new experimental study in mice led by UCL scientists. The research, published in Nature Communications, explains for the first time how a ‘mosaic mutation’ – a mutation which is not inherited from…
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The Biden administration is revising the social cost of carbon (SCC), a decade-old cost-benefit metric used to inform climate policy by placing a monetary value on the impact of climate change. In a newly published analysis in the journal Nature, a team of researchers lists a series of measures the administration should consider in recalculating…
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BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, February 17, 2021 – A team led by researchers at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have found a new way of enhancing the performance of electrochemical micro-sensors. This discovery could lead to the detection of biomolecules, such as dopamine, at lower concentrations than is possible today. Their findings…
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The Notting Hill Carnival was canceled last year. But it likely wouldn’t exist at all without the efforts of Claudia Jones. By Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff For the Caribbean diaspora living in London, there may never have been a quieter weekend than the one in August 2020 that normally would have seen the Notting Hill Carnival. England…
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WASHINGTON — An international effort to expedite the manufacturing and distribution of coronavirus vaccines around the globe got a lift on Thursday on two fronts: White House officials said the Biden administration would make good on a U.S. promise to donate $4 billion to the campaign over two years, and the pharmaceutical company Novavax committed…
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With every month that passed in 2020, Samantha Hill’s part seemed to widen, the increasingly bald stripe of skin a representation of what she calls “a four-part terrible play” in her life. Reeling from the death of her father in January, Ms. Hill, a 29-year-old freelance photographer, had barely adjusted to her new normal when…
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OTTAWA — Canada seemed to be off to a quick start. Its regulator had approved a coronavirus vaccine codeveloped by Pfizer just ahead of the United States, and national newscasts were soon filled with images of people getting their first injections. But the hopes raised by the vaccination launch in December — buoyed, too, by…
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The trend for minimalism and monochrome is the priority in nail art for the upcoming season. We are going to tell and show in our guide how to follow this and other nail trends for spring and summer 2021. When creating beauty images for spring-summer fashion shows, beauty gurus clearly focused their attention on make-up…
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Ella Emhoff, the 21-year-old knitwear designer who signed a major modeling contract in January, has released her first clothing collection since her viral coat-wearing appearance at the inauguration of her stepmother, Vice President Kamala Harris. Introduced Thursday morning on Mall, a shopping platform for emerging designers, the collection included five knitted items, priced between $160…
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Your Negroni, your martini, your Manhattan and many more would fall perilously short without vermouth. A backbone to heavyweight and newcomer cocktails alike, vermouth doesn’t exist solely to amplify others. Rather, the fortified, aromatized wine is a complex, complete pour all on its own. Begin with the three traditional styles: sweet, dry and blanc, also…
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