Far more sophisticated studies with better controls on variables, however, consistently show either no achievement benefits, or small achievement benefits for students in charter schools. (washingtonpost.com)
Two years later, she repeated the feat with stretchable, resilient fibers that allow optical control and recording of neurons in the spinal cords of awake mice, expanding the range of neural circuits amenable to optogenetic analysis and paving the way for sophisticated studies of spinal cord injury and recovery. (vilcek.org)
A comprehensive and technically sophisticated study published in the May 7 issue of Science, «A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome,» by Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologists Richard E. Green, Svante Pääbo and 54 of their colleagues, demonstrates that «between 1 and 4 % of the genomes of people in Eurasia are derived from Neandertals» and that «Neandertals are on average closer to individuals in Eurasia than to individuals in Africa.» (scientificamerican.com)