What makes Ran run?

What makes Ran run?

Cloning confusion very cloning pronouncement has one guaranteed ingredient: controversy. This time, Atsuo Ogura (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan) and Rudolf Jaenisch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA) are duking it out. Ogura claims that most of the defects that Jaenisch has seen in his cloned mice were caused by the genetic instability of the embryon...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

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Parallel input makes the brain run faster

In serial sensory processing, information flows from the thalamus via primary sensory cortices to higher-order association areas. However, association cortices also receive, albeit weak, direct thalamocortical sensory inputs of unknown function. For example, while information proceeds from primary (SI) to secondary (SII) somatosensory cortex in a serial fashion, both areas are known to receive ...

What Makes a Revolution

Although property rights are the cornerstone of capitalist economies, throughout history existing claims have been frequently overturned and redefined by revolution. A fundamental question for economists is what makes revolutions more likely to occur. A large literature has found contradictory evidence for the effect of income and income inequality on revolt, possibly due to omitted variable bi...