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'Last Hawaiian princess' Abigail Kawānanakoa dies with $215m in wealth

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By Kathryn Armstrong

BBC News

Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, Hawaii's so-called "last princess", has passed away aged 96.

The royal, known to her friends as Kekau, was one of the last living links to the royal family and was celebrated for her philanthropic support of traditional Hawaiian culture.

The heiress died peacefully at home in Honolulu on Sunday with her wife by her side, according to a statement released by Iolani Palace, the historic home of the royal family - and America's only royal residence.

"Abigail will be remembered for her love of Hawaii and its people," said her wife, Veronica Gail Kawānanakoa. "I will miss her with all of my heart."

No cause of death has yet been given.

Abigail Kawānanakoa was born in Honolulu in 1926 and later attended school in Shanghai and California.

Her great wealth, which is estimated to be $215m (£175m) and was held in trust, came from her great-grandfather, James Campbell, an Irish businessman who owned a sugar plantation.

His daughter married Prince David Kawānanakoa, who was third in line for the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaii when the royal family was overthrown by American businessmen in 1893.

At the time, the role of US nationals in the coup was controversial, and President Grover Cleveland describing their involvement in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy an "embarrassment".

After the prince's death in 1908, his widow adopted their grandchild through the traditional Hawaiian custom of "hānai", which strengthened Abigail's claim to the informal title of princess.

While some genealogists claimed that Princess Kawānanakoa had the strongest royal ties to Hawaii, a separate offshoot of the former royal family claims that Princess Owana Ka'ohelelani is the rightful head of the modern-day dynasty.

Mrs Kawānanakoa herself admitted in a 2021 interview with Honolulu Magazine that had the monarchy survived, her cousin Edward Kawānanakoa would have been in line to rule ahead of her, based on the rules of succession.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63956634

>>17936666

Ultrafast Microscopy: Imaging Light with Photoelectrons on the Nano-Femto Scale

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Ultrafast Microscopy: Imaging Ligh with Photoelectrons on the Nano-Femto Scale

Yanan Dai (University of Pittsburgh)

>>17937024

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How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet | Dan Gibson

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>>17937127

Sep 19, 2017

Space Radiation is Risky Business for the Human Body

While people protect their eyes from the sun’s radiation during a solar eclipse, NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is working to protect the whole human body from radiation in space. Space radiation is dangerous and one of the primary health risks for astronauts.

“Determining astronaut health consequences following radiation exposure involve very complex processes,” said Tony Slaba, Ph.D., NASA research physicist. “It’s difficult to quantify exactly how radiation is interacting with tissues and cells – and more complicated to quantify and determine what long-term outcomes are going to be in terms of the potential diseases and biological system effects.”

Virtually any cell in the body is susceptible to radiation damage. The HRP is concerned with long-term health consequences of radiation exposure such as cancer, as well as adverse effects to the central nervous and cardiovascular systems. 

Space Radiation is Risky Business for the Human Body

Space radiation is made up of protons and all the elements on the periodic table. It enters the human body at energies approaching the speed of light and can damage DNA.

Credits: NASA

“The primary means by which radiation effects cells is by damaging DNA – breaks in strands could be experienced,” said Peter Guida, Ph.D., liaison biologist for NASA Space Radiation Laboratory. “DNA bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine) can also be knocked out. The cell will make an attempt to repair these damages. Sometimes it’s effective and sometimes it’s not, and sometimes it can be misrepaired. Genes that have been misrepaired can become mutations, and the accumulation of these mutations over time can potentially lead to cancer.”

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-radiation-is-risky-business-for-the-human-body

Synthetic Genes Sub for Natural Ones in Microbe Experiment

A handful of bacterial genes crucial to survival were successfully replaced by artificial ones in a new synthetic-biology experiment. It’s not clear how the synthetic genes rescued the doomed E. coli bacteria, which had several important sequences of DNA knocked out of its genome. But scientists think synthetic proteins produced by the new genes replaced […]

Dave Mosher

Science

Jan 10, 2011 6:47 PM

https://www.wired.com/2011/01/synthetic-gene-protein-rescue/

>>17937127

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>>17937188

>Synthetic Genes Sub for Natural Ones in Microbe Experiment

DNA Synthesis Technology | How synthetic DNA is made

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