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LAST BURST. "Thus, the acquisition of numerous genes from the proto-mitochondrion comes across as the last major burst of HGT (other than the acquisition of chloroplast genes at the base of the Archaeplastida), although numerous lineage-specific acquisitions of relatively small but biologically consequential groups of bacterial genes as well as eukaryote-to-eukaryote transfers undoubtedly occurred at later stages." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER. "Acquisition of the mitochondria precipitated the series of dramatic changes in the organization of the chimeric cell which led to the curtailment of HGT." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

FITS AND STARTS. "Eukaryotes acquired the majority of bacterial genes in the two major bursts associated with the origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts whereas subsequent, continuous acquisition of bacterial genes was limited in extent." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

GIANT GENE TRANSFERS. "In these special cases, the sources of the hundreds if not thousands of transferred genes were mitochondria and chloroplasts, respectively, i.e. bacterial endosymbionts on the path to becoming eukaryotic organelles." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

ESTABLISHED FACT. "The importance of massive HGT in at least two major evolutionary transitions, namely the origin of eukaryotes and the origin of the eukaryotic supergroup Archaeplastida (algae and plants), is beyond doubt." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

EXPERIMENTAL CHAMP. "Sometimes, they’re even better than humans are. US chemists have created a machine-learning algorithm that studies successful and failed experiments in order to beat humans at predicting ways to make crystals." https://lnkd.in/dymCyw7 View in LinkedIn

THRUSHES" "Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn," "More coiled steel than living - a poised" "Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs" "Triggered to stirrings beyond sense - with a start, a bounce, " "a stab" "Overtake the instant and drag out some writhing thing. " "No indolent procrastinations and no yawning states," "No sighs or head-scratchings. Nothing but bounce and stab " "And a ravening second."" "(Ted Hughes). https://lnkd.in/drHWmQF View in LinkedIn

REPEATED REFINEMENT. "Initially, the equations generated by the program failed to explain the data, but some failures were slightly less wrong than others. Using a genetic algorithm, the program modified the most promising failures, tested them again, chose the best, and repeated the process until a set of equations evolved to describe the systems. Turns out, some of these equations were very familiar: the law of conservation of momentum, and Newton’s second law of motion." (Eureqa). https://lnkd.in/dEC3j_P View in LinkedIn

"COCKROACHES: Indestructible, and Instructive to Robot Makers. The cockroach structure and motion could work better than other, more wormlike designs for robots to explore sites where war or natural disaster has caused buildings to collapse. “This is the model for soft robots. Roaches could end up being the source of inspiration for machines that save people’s lives. https://lnkd.in/dQSTw9D View in LinkedIn

BOT WARS. “Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia's pages.” https://lnkd.in/du9yK8t View in LinkedIn