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Thick smudges black out parts of an aria from Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 opera ‘Médée.’ – Uwe Bergmann / SLAC
SLAC X-rays resurrect 200-year-old lost aria
Thanks to scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, audiences can hear a 200-year-old opera by composer Luigi Cherubini in full for the first time in centuries. The scientists blasted X-rays at the damaged musical score to peek at the musical notes hidden beneath a layer of smudgy black.
Stanford Report, June 10, 2013 | BY THOMAS SUMNER
Yale researchers unravel genetics of dyslexia and language impairment
A new study of the genetic origins of dyslexia and other learning disabilities could allow for earlier diagnoses and more successful interventions, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine. Many students now are not diagnosed until high school, at which point treatments are less effective.
June 12, 2013 | By Karen N. Peart | Yale News
A closer look at Supreme Court’s decision on gene patenting
As previously discussed here and elsewhere, the Supreme Court today issued its opinion in the gene patenting case Association for Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics, Inc. In a unanimous decision (.pdf) authored by Justice Thomas, the Court declared that isolated genomic DNA was not eligible for patent protection, but that cDNA – “cloned” or “complementary DNA” – could be patented. This was largely the outcome some predicted after oral argument. And while the actual business and research effects of the decision remain to be seen, this does bring to a close the longstanding practice of patenting isolated portions of the human genome in its native state.
Jake Sherkow | June 13th, 2013 | Stanford Medicine
Alice Alpert worked in Antarctica for two field seasons before entering the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. During her stay in 2010, she met poet Katharine Coles, who was visiting as part of an NSF-funded program to bring artists and writers to the remote and forbidding continent. (Photo by Edgar Woznica)
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