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Bacteria from the dead….

3 June 2010 grant b 0

National Geographic goes beyond the veil for a close look at the life-bringing secrets of resurrection bacteria:

Using such clues, D. radiodurans can piece together all of its DNA in about

… Read the rest “Bacteria from the dead….”

Blue light smells like bananas.

28 May 2010 grant b 0

That’s how Science Daily says life is like for fruit flies who’ve had their smell gene connected to the light gene:

Normally animals avoid light. However, blue light simulates

… Read the rest “Blue light smells like bananas.”

Mammoth blood lives again.

12 May 2010 grant b 0

Science magazine brings us a step closer to a Pleistocene Park by reporting on the creation of living mammoth blood:

By inserting a 43,000-year-old woolly mammoth gene into Escherichia

… Read the rest “Mammoth blood lives again.”

Swap DNA with bugs.

3 May 2010 grant b 0

Feeling like you need more intimacy in your life? Science Daily reveals an alternative to finding that special person in your life. Nature provides a way for us to trade genes with insects… Read the rest “Swap DNA with bugs.”

What was I saying about whales?

19 April 2010 grant b 0

BBC reports they’re delicious! And oh yeah, you may already have tasted them:

A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being

… Read the rest “What was I saying about whales?”

Sushi superpowers.

12 April 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion:

Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each

… Read the rest “Sushi superpowers.”

Lose a gene, gain a limb.

17 March 2010 grant b 0

PhysOrg shows you how to arrange the swap:

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

… Read the rest “Lose a gene, gain a limb.”

Auroch returns.

12 February 2010 grant b 0

The Telegraph hails the promise of herds of elephant-sized cattle returning to Europe’s plains:

Now Italian scientists are hoping to use genetic expertise and selective breeding

… Read the rest “Auroch returns.”

Once, we were endangered.

26 January 2010 grant b 0

SciAm puts us back in our place with the revelation from our DNA that humans used to be rarer than mountain gorillas:

[A]ccording to scientists from the University of Utah, about a million

… Read the rest “Once, we were endangered.”

Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…

27 October 2009 grant b 0

We all want a primitive man, says the Telegraph, reporting on new evidence that modern humans got it on with Neanderthals:

[Said Professor Paabo, who is director of genetics at the renowned

… Read the rest “Not the kind that belongs to a club, but the kind with a club that belongs to him…”

The delinquent gene?

10 June 2009 grant b 0

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:

Led by noted biosocial

… Read the rest “The delinquent gene?”

Pleistocence Park?

28 January 2009 grant b 0

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

19 October 2008 grant b 0

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.

17 September 2008 grant b 0

Because, New Scientist reports, it may have given us ours:

When genetically engineered into mice, the human DNA seems to activate genes in the budding wrist and thumb. Chimp and monkey versions,

… Read the rest “Give junk DNA a hand.”

Better than Shinola.

18 August 2008 grant b 0

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.”

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