Electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) refers to the purported manifestation of voices of the dead and other discarnate entities through electronic means. This has typically involved tuning radios between stations and recording the output on audiotape, although more recently anomalous voices, visual images and text have purportedly been found using telephones, television sets and computers in a phen...

Nuclei isolated from a permanent cell line derived from Drosophila melanogaster embryos have been injected, along with a radioactive DNA precursor [3H]TTP, into Xenopus laevis eggs. In culture, less than 7% of the cells were in S phase. After a 90 min incubation, following injection into eggs, 99% of the nuclei were shown by autoradiography to have synthesized DNA. In a similar experiment, a de...

This article describes an implementation of a basic multiprocessor system that exhibits replication and differentiation abilities on the POEtic tissue, a programmable hardware designed for bio-inspired applications [1, 2] . As for a living organism, whose existence starts with only one cell that first divides, our system begins with only one totipotent processor, able to implement any of the ce...

Science has always relied on reproducibility to build confidence in experimental results. Now, the most comprehensive investigation ever done about the rate and predictors of reproducibility in social and cognitive sciences has found that regardless of the analytic method or criteria used, fewer than half of the original findings were successfully replicated. While a failure to reproduce does n...

Brucellae replicate in a vacuole derived from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in epithelial cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells. In animals, trophoblasts are also key cellular targets where brucellae efficiently replicate in association with the ER. Therefore, we investigated the ability of Brucella spp. to infect human trophoblasts using both immortalized and primary trophoblasts. Brucella ...

When launched, eNeuro included different types of scientific papers, including the Failure to Replicate category. As scientists, we know that many papers cannot be replicated, for many different reasons, e.g., lack of statistical power, misinterpretation, experimental caveat, and even fraud. When such papers are published in high-profile journals, they can send research in the wrong direction a...