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1 Stanford researchers have succeeded in transforming immune cells into neurons without going through the pluripotent cell stage.
These blood cells can be transformed into neurons in three weeks by simply adding four proteins. Through this process called transdifferentiation, the lymphocyte becomes directly neuron.
This protocol, which uses “transdifferentiation”, could promote the study of pathologies in the laboratory, such as autism or schizophrenia.
2 Gravitational waves from the fusion of two neutron stars were detected in August 2017. The observations today support the hypothesis of the formation of a black hole following this phenomenon.
Both instruments Ligo and Virgo had made it possible to specify sufficiently the position of this source on the sky to find that it was also associated with a gamma burst.
A team of researchers who observed in X-rays the place of the kilonova with the Chandra telescope has just provided some answers.
3 541 million years old animal footprints were discovered in China, making them the oldest on the planet.
The footprints are only a few millimeters apart, and look like two rows of small holes.
Researchers do not know from which animal they are. The creature unfortunately could not be identified because it did not die near its footprints, and no corresponding fossils were found.
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