Posts tagged “genetics”
#FridayFive: Apple Varieties
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Urge the FDA to Say YES to Accelerated Approval for safe, effective therapies for children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy — the leading genetic killer of children, which impacts one out of every 3,500 boys born in the United States.
Genetic Memories
Fascinating Fact about Planarian Worms
Genetics and Evolution
… some wonderful comments on genetics and evolution from the USS Clueless …
Cats
I’m interested in learning how you feel about this: A company called Transgenic Pets is attempting to create genetically modified cats. These cats, “will be like any other cats except they will no longer have the protein that causes an allergic reaction in human beings.” BBC article NY Times article
Space Seeds
A geologist working for the Italian National Research Council and a professor of molecular biology at Naples University identified and brought back to life extraterrestrial microorganisms lodged inside 4.5 billion-year-old meteorites kept at Naples’ mineralogical museum. The bacteria, called “cryms” (for crystal microbes) by the researchers, remained dormant for billions of years and survived extreme
TechnoSphere
Cool3 TechnoSphere is a 3D model world inhabited by artificial lifeforms created by WWW users. There are thousands of creatures in the world all competing to survive. They eat, fight, mate and create offspring which evolve and adapt to their environment. When you make a creature it will email you to let you know what
BladeRunner
Director Ridley Scott took issues already noticeable in the 1980s, such as urban development, genetic engineering, and, of course, climate change, and took them to what he thought was their next logical stage. So what else did Blade Runner get right? link via Follow Me Here …
BioEngineering
I got into a bit of an odd conversation last night at dinner. This girl, we’ll call her Gretchen, was talking about the ramifications of genetically selecting your children. Somehow we started in on cell phones and biotechnology and such. I was saying that I will be the first in line for jacking myself into