Complex life forms may arise from electrical processes

Altruism may arise from individual selection.

The fact that humans cooperate with non-kin in large groups, or with people they will never meet again, is a long-standing evolutionary puzzle. Altruism, the capacity to perform costly acts that confer benefits on others, is at the core of cooperative behavior. Behavioral experiments show that humans have a predisposition to cooperate with others and to punish non-cooperators at personal cost (...

How life can arise from chemistry

Isotropic Lagrangian Submanifolds in Complex Space Forms

In this paper we study isotropic Lagrangian submanifolds , in complex space forms . It is shown that they are either totally geodesic or minimal in the complex projective space , if . When , they are either totally geodesic or minimal in . We also give a classification of semi-parallel Lagrangian H-umbilical submanifolds.

Life forms

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Multiple clinical forms of dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis arise from mutations in PIEZO1.

Autosomal dominant dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis (DHSt) usually presents as a compensated hemolytic anemia with macrocytosis and abnormally shaped red blood cells (RBCs). DHSt is part of a pleiotropic syndrome that may also exhibit pseudohyperkalemia and perinatal edema. We identified PIEZO1 as the disease gene for pleiotropic DHSt in a large kindred by exome sequencing analysis within t...