Fiona MacDonald
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New frontier in fight against Alzheimer’s, epilepsy opens with discovery of learning mechanism
Researchers have discovered a brand new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in our brain communicate with each other ...
Physicists discover new layer of information in DNA’s folded structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Theoretical physicists have confirmed ...

Is musical talent in your genes?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Creativity is a hard ...

Yoghurt from where?! Researcher creates dairy snack from own vaginal microbes
A Ph.D student in the U.S. created yoghurt using the bacterial cultures from her own vagina and ate it. And it turns ...