Noteworthy Web Articles: June 2014
An eclectic mixture of technology-based articles we found on the Web this month that we thought you'd like to read.
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- Sleep quality and duration improve cognition in aging populations
- Saturated Fat Intake May Influence a Person’s Expression of Genetic Obesity Risk
- Childhood Sunscreen Use Prevents Adult Cancer
- UH Research Focuses on How Food Marketing Creates a False Sense of Health
- Want to Get Out Alive? Follow the Ants
- Bright Lights, Big Feelings
- Dirty Houses Linked to Lower Allergy, Asthma Risks
- You Can Skip Breakfast
- Sequencing efforts miss DNA crucial to bacteria’s disease causing power
- Scientists Use X-rays to Look at How DNA Protects Itself from UV Light
- Controlling movement with light
- Sequencing electric eel genome unlocks shocking secrets
- Tofu Ingredient Could Revolutionize Solar Panel Manufacture
- Fighting parasitic infection inadvertently unleashes dormant virus
- False Memory Archive': the new London exhibitions
- Incentives needed to further improve sharing of research data, says new report
- For One Baby, Life Begins with Genome Revealed
- Mechanism discovered for attaching an “on” switch that helps cells accessorize proteins
- Scripps Research Institute Scientists Find Potential New Use for Cancer Drug in Gene Therapy for Blood Disorders
- Genes discovered linking circadian clock with eating schedule
- Pushing cells towards a higher pluripotency state
- Insights into the geometry of genetic coding
- Single DNA Tweak Leads to Blond Hair
- MIT researchers develop new ultralight, ultrastiff 3D printed materials
- Biologists Find ‘Missing Link’ in the Production of Protein Factories in Cells
- Crippled Gene Lowers Triglycerides, Wards Off Heart Disease
- Scientists break the genetic code for diabetes in Greenland
- Neurons Get Their Neighbors To Take Out Their Trash
- Researchers Identify Mechanism That Could Help Old Muscle Grow
- Stress hormone linked to short-term memory loss as we age
- Hearing protein required to convert sound into brain signals
- Computation leads to better understanding of influenza virus replication
- Purdue researchers shut down a SARS cloaking system; findings could pave the way to vaccines for SARS virus, MERS
- Lithium Sulfur: A Battery Revolution on the Cheap?
- Scientists Reveal Details of Calcium 'Safety-Valve' in Cells
- New Clues to Why Older Women are More Vulnerable to Breast Cancer
- With the right rehabilitation, paralyzed rats learn to grip again
- New Drug-Based Approach to Regenerative Medicine for Heart Failure
- Regenerating Bones with Beer