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A Shocking Outcome in Virtual Reality
An experimental study using virtual reality found that men virtually embodied as a woman on the receiving end of sexual harassment from a group of virtual men would be less aggressive to a virtual woman one week later.
From a duo to a quartet: viral and bacterial symbionts influence fungal biology
By Laila P. Partida-MartÃnez
KAS-seq: capturing global transcription activity with kethoxal-assisted labeling
We describe a kethoxal-assisted single-stranded DNA sequencing (KAS-seq) approach. KAS-seq allows rapid (within 5 min), sensitive and genome-wide capture and mapping of ssDNA produced by transcriptionally active RNA polymerases or other processes in situ using as few as 1,000 cells.
