Showing posts with label Genetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genetics. Show all posts
Saturday, January 26, 2013

"Quadruple helix" DNA discovered in Humans Also, "Quadruple Helix" DNA is a Thing, Sort of

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Digital rendering of the "crystal structure of parallel quadruplexes from human telomeric DNA." (Image credit: Wikipedia Com...
Monday, September 5, 2011

How to Make "Bullet Proof" Skin From Spider Silk

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Image credit: Luc Viatour Working in collaboration with researchers from the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands, dutch artist Jalila ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Some of The Building Blocks of DNA May Have Come From Space

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Artist concept credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith By grinding up and analyzing samples of twelve carbon-rich mete...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Cephalopods In Space!

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Image: Jenny Huang /CC When salmonella was sent into space for 12 days aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in September of 2006, it was discov...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Matt Ridley and Richard Dawkins on DNA, Extraterrestrial Life and More...

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Posted by YouTube user: AtheistMediaBlog Since we've been discussing astrobiology and genetics over the past few days, now seemed like a...
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Friday, December 3, 2010

NASA Press Conference Disappoints Many, But it Really Shouldn't Have

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[ *UPDATE* ]Turns out, not only have NASA's observations NOT been confirmed by any other researchers, but there's also been no sho...
Friday, October 29, 2010

Biotech Company Begins First Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial

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Earlier this month the Geron Corporation began the first Human embryonic stem cell trial. This trial, which began October 8th in the Shepher...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Synthetic Life...sort of

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Comic by: Nate Beeler Taken from: GazetteXtra.com A research team led by Dr Craig Venter of the J Craig Venter Institute(JCVI) in Maryland...