Sushi superpowers.
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion:
… Read the rest “Sushi superpowers.”Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each
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Lose a gene, gain a limb.
PhysOrg shows you how to arrange the swap:
… Read the rest “Lose a gene, gain a limb.”The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing potential in mice long thought to have been lost through evolution and reserved for
Auroch returns.
The Telegraph hails the promise of herds of elephant-sized cattle returning to Europe’s plains:
… Read the rest “Auroch returns.”Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective breeding
Once, we were endangered.
SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas:
… Read the rest “Once, we were endangered.”[A]ccording to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million
Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…
We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals:
… Read the rest “Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…”[Said Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned
The delinquent gene?
I’m not sure what to make of PhysOrg’s declaration that scientist have isolated the gene that leads people to join gangs and perform acts of violence:
… Read the rest “The delinquent gene?”Led by noted biosocial
Pleistocence Park?
Not dinosaurs, but mammoths. I’d like to ride a mammoth. Wouldn’t you? New Scientist teases us with the possibility we can soon ride mammoths… or race glyptodons…… Read the rest “Pleistocence Park?”
Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International
I’m quite fond of the aurochs. As the feared onager was to the domestic donkey, so the aurochs to domestic cattle. Onagers gave their name to a medieval siege weapon; aurochs gave their… Read the rest “Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International”
Give junk DNA a hand.
Because, New Scientist reports, it may have given us ours:
… Read the rest “Give junk DNA a hand.”When genetically engineered into mice, the human DNA seems to activate genes in the budding wrist and thumb. Chimp and monkey versions,
Better than Shinola.
Dailytech.com is smiling (or is it just gas?) over the latest trick we’ve gotten E. coli to perform. Geneticists have altered the food-poisoning germ so that it excretes diesel fuel… Read the rest “Better than Shinola.”
I no caveman? Unk!
Wired burst bubble! Science-head say me no Neanderthal no how:
… Read the rest “I no caveman? Unk!”Scientists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal returned no evidence of ancestral interbreeding
Unintentional twins.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported on some trouble with DNA testing. No, it wasn’t a new OJ Simpson-style courtroom blunder, but the discovery that some of us are more genetically… Read the rest “Unintentional twins.”
Turning off old age.
Stanford researchers have discovered something strange about microscopic worms, ScientificBlogging reports. These nematodes have specific genes that regulate the aging process… Read the rest “Turning off old age.”
SONG: All Our Tomorrows
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ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: “DNA Retrieved from 1,000-Year-Old Vikings”… Read the rest “SONG: All Our Tomorrows”