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Sara Zaske
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Senior Science Writer, Stanford University
Idaho
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environment, agriculture conservation, wildlife geology,science climate
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By Sara Zaske|Copernical.com'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earthby Sara Zaske for Stanford NewsStanford CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2025 Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.
By Sara Zaske|Medical XpressVerifiedMost people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the right side of their hearts to supply oxygenated blood to the back side. For some people, this artery, called the posterior descending artery, comes from the left side or from both directions. A study has found that the gene CXCL12 is connected to this artery's formation and that its directional pattern is set very early in human development.
By Sara Zaske|Medical XpressVerifiedMost people have right-dominant hearts—which to a doctor or a researcher means they have an artery that extends from the right side of their hearts to supply oxygenated blood to the back side. For some people, this artery, called the posterior descending artery, comes from the left side or from both directions. A study has found that the gene CXCL12 is connected to this artery's formation and that its directional pattern is set very early in human development.
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