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British power generation achieves first ever coal-free day https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/21/britain-set-for-first-coal-free-day-since-the-industrial-revolution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

NEW HEAD REGENERATION. "Adult stem cell populations (neoblasts) underlie their remarkable regenerative abilities, and whole worms can regenerate from only a small proportion of the adult worm: a cut off (or damaged) head is rebuilt perfectly within few days." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

MODEL SYSTEM. "Free-living, planarian flatworms represent the ‘first’ class of organism to have a centralized brain with true synaptic transmission, and share the majority of neurotransmitters that occur in vertebrate brains." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

IMMINENT ISSUES. "For example, what happens to the personality and mental content of an adult patient with decades of stored memories when their brain is repopulated by the descendants of implanted stem cells." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

CYBERNETICS. "The intersection of these two fundamental processes has implications for basic neurobiology and engineering of the brain–body interface, for the synthetic bioengineering of cybernetic systems and for the biomedicine of degenerative brain disease." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

TWO TYPES OF INFORMATION. " Biological information in multicellular organisms comes in at least two types: spatial information, needed to create and maintain specific anatomical structures during embryogenesis and regeneration; and temporal information, abstracted and stored from environmental stimuli over time by the central nervous system (CNS)." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

BOX CHEMISTRY. "The exploration of these confined spaces and of the molecules within them continues to open new frontiers." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19603810 View in LinkedIn

TREMENDOUS RESEARCH EFFORT. "In fact, by the time the dust had settled roughly 200 independent research teams — many in the upper tiers of science — conducted memory transfer experiments, using dozens of learning paradigms and 23 types of subjects including, in addition to the flatworm and standard lab rat, octopuses, praying mantes, baby chicks, kittens and honey bees." https://lnkd.in/esKEPF7 View in LinkedIn

CHIRALS IN BOXES. "The capsule remains achiral, but the remaining space is chiral, and coencapsulated molecules respond in an amplified way. We probe the various regions of the capsule with guests of different shape. Primary acetylenes, the narrowest of functional groups, can access the tapered ends of the capsule that exclude functions as small as methyl groups." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19603810 View in LinkedIn

DISCREDITED. "The alleged fact that no one was ever able to truly replicate the findings. Those who did report positive results, the story goes, were poor scientists who either conducted sloppy experiments that lacked proper controls or simply deceived themselves." https://lnkd.in/esKEPF7 View in LinkedIn