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Submission + - Scientists Have Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by Trax3001BBS on Monday April 23, 2018 @07:27PM

Trax3001BBS writes: For the first time, scientists have identified the existence of a new DNA structure never before seen in living cells.

The discovery of what's described as a 'twisted knot' of DNA in living cells confirms our complex genetic code is crafted with more intricate symmetry than just the double helix structure everybody associates with DNA – and the forms these molecular variants take affect how our biology functions.

Submission + - Microsoft emergency update: Malware Engine needs update (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Trax3001BBS on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:50AM

Trax3001BBS writes: Microsoft has posted an out-of-band security update to address a remote code execution flaw in its Malware Protection Engine.

Submission + - Researchers Clone Cells from Two Adult Men (stem cells) (time.com)

Submitted by Trax3001BBS on Thursday April 17, 2014 @05:52PM

Trax3001BBS writes: "Lanza’s group used caffeine to prevent the fused egg from dividing prematurely. Rather than leaving the egg with its newly introduced DNA for 30 minutes before activating the dividing stage, they let the eggs rest for about two hours. This gave the DNA enough time to acclimate to its new environment and interact with the egg’s development factors, which erased each of the donor cell’s existing history and reprogrammed it to act like a brand new cell in an embryo."

Stem cells is my take on this feat.

Submission + - Damming news from Washington State (seattletimes.com)

Submitted by Trax3001BBS on Saturday March 01, 2014 @07:58PM

Trax3001BBS writes: Wanapum Dam has been found with a 65-foot (20 meter) crack. Water levels are being lowered to both reduce water pressure and give the inspectors access to the area.

"Earlier this week, an engineer noticed a slight irregular “bowing” above the spillway gates near where cars can drive across the dam.
When divers finally took a look under water they found a 2-inch-wide crack that stretched for 65 feet along the base of one of the dam’s spillway piers...

The artilcle goes on to say
"Even if the dam doesn’t fail, the significance of the damage is likely to require extensive repairs and that, too, could impact the entire Columbia River system.
“All these dams coordinate to generate energy on a regional scope,” Stedwick said. “If Wanapum is impacted, that has impacts on dams up stream as well as below.”

Up stream dams would be required to handle more water, the lower Dams means just one (Priest rapids Dam); after that is the last free flowing section of the Columbia river. Daily walks along that section I've seen it deviate (higher or lower) by amazing amount of water; it can handle it.
On top of this situation you have a large group of people that would like that particular Dam removed as well as the one above and below it (think of the fish!) http://www.npr.org/2013/05/15/..., after Priest rapids dam (down stream from Wanapum Dam) is the Hanford Nuclear Reservation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... once the site for Plutonium production area. Either of which stand to get a lot of press from this.
Personally I'd like to give the engineer that noticed a slight irregular “bowing” and atta boy.

Submission + - Dear Asus router user: All your Cloud are belong to us (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Trax3001BBS on Monday February 17, 2014 @09:33PM

Trax3001BBS writes: ARS is running an article about a vulnerability of ASUS routers that are becoming very popular at the moment -like connected USB devices being open to the world.

According to Lovett, the weakness affects a variety of Asus router models, including the RT-AC66R, RT-AC66U, RT-N66R, RT-N66U, RT-AC56U, RT-N56R, RT-N56U, RT-N14U, RT-N16, and RT-N16R..a when using AiCloud or FTP

-and this old news, come new again-
I have the AC66U router, but with the Asuswrt Merlin ROM http://www.lostrealm.ca/tower/... that took care of this vulnerability long ago. (Number 17) http://blog.ittoby.com/2013/01...

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