Mammoth blood lives again.
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 […]
genetics
Swap DNA with bugs.
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 […]
What was I saying about whales?
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 […]
Sushi superpowers.
New Scientist hypes a pretty cool discovery about gene-swapping bacteria changing sushi-eaters’ digestion: Genes regularly shuttle between different bacteria, offering each other new traits such […]
Lose a gene, gain a limb.
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 […]
Auroch returns.
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 […]
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: [A]ccording to scientists […]
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: [Said Professor Paabo, who […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Give junk DNA a hand.
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 […]
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 […]
I no caveman? Unk!
Wired burst bubble! Science-head say me no Neanderthal no how: Scientists who sequenced the mitochondrial DNA of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal returned no evidence of ancestral […]
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 […]