Showing posts with label genetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genetics. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Human embryos, genetically modified for the first time ever

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Isn't this how Khan Noonien Singh came about ? "Superior ability breeds superior ambition."
Thursday, April 03, 2014

Bipolar Disorder: Research proves that... it wasn't a choice

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Note:  This blog hasn't been the same lately.  I don't know if I should keep going or not.  What do you think? The night before....
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Friday, January 25, 2013

Crazy new data storage: DNA and quartz crystals (for 300 million years)

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Because I don't want to go to bed with two consecutive posts pertaining to Star Wars staring me in the face (no matter how good, or how ...
Friday, December 14, 2012

First photo of DNA in all its twisted glory!

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Nearly sixty years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick figured out what DNA - that mega-long molecule containing the blueprints of organic l...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Genes found with links to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

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For those wondering about this blog's Being Bipolar series , I haven't stopped it at all. Just been trying to figure out what to w...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Aurochs: It's what's for dinner! (Maybe...)

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The aurochs - a species of wild cattle a little less than the size of an elephant and the ancestor of modern breeding cattle - has been ext...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

DNA not the same throughout body, study finds

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For all these years it's been assumed that every cell of an organism shared the same DNA. The differentiation between cells only arisin...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Down syndrome and how it fights cancer

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This is why I love the Internet so much: you get to learn stuff you otherwise might never have known. And this is why I love blogging so mu...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Man apparently rid of HIV following radical stem cell transplant

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Extremely exciting medical news coming out today: a 42-year old man who had previously been infected with HIV is now, apparently, completely...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

State of Washington considers swabbing DNA from EVERYONE who gets arrested

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It's like Barney Fife gone zealous with a genetics lab: legislators in the state of Washington are mulling the idea of getting DNA sampl...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Garage-based amateurs now playing with genetic engineering

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It's not likely that anyone will clone-up a velociraptor, but the Associated Press reports about the growing trend of "do it yourse...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Tomb of Copernicus found after 200 year search

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It's turning out to be quite a week for the science of genetics. First the DNA of the woolly mammoth has been mostly reconstructed . An...

Scientists reconstitute most of woolly mammoth's DNA

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Working from balls of hair recovered from Siberia, scientists have reconstructed two-thirds of the woolly mammoth's DNA sequence . The ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WARNING: This post about the government contains the mother of all swear words... and it's about time

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The federal government will soon be taking DNA samples from EVERYONE that it arrests . It took almost five years, but the dam has finally bu...
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Friday, May 18, 2007

Britain to allow human-animal hybrids

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Ever heard of the Book of Enoch ? It's not widely accepted as Christian "canon" (although some Coptic Christians consider it ...
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