Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com 3.5 billion years of evolution, in one beautiful infographic. Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more… http://flpbd.it/Xrm83…
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ScienceNow, wired.com Researchers have stored an entire genetics textbook in less than a picogram of DNA, or one trillionth of a gram . It’s an advance that could revolutionize our ability to save data. http://flpbd.it/BN1W3 DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive Related articles DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive (news.dice.com) Every Shakespeare sonnet now right where you…
Personal genetics company seeks regulatory approval Monya Baker, nature.com Personal genetics company 23andMe announced Monday that it was seeking FDA approval for an initial batch of seven health-related tests with scores more to follow. 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California, markets genetics test… http://flpbd.it/usMr0 Related articles 23andMe’s Tools Help Solve Ancestry Mystery (23andme.com) One Million…
For years, other countries have been far more cautious about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation on human health than in the US and far too little is known about this as we increasingly expose ourselves to these fields. In parts of Europe for example there are much stricter regulations on exposure to EMFs than in…
via www.wired.com Another excellent article on turning the scientific method on its head using new web based social networking data mining methods versus hypothesis/testing. For example compares the conventional approach of NIH to that of 23andMe in studying Parkinson’s which lead to a reduction in research time from 6 years to 8 months. Related articles…
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via online.wsj.com Okay it has finally happened. Computer science has become biology and digital DNA has been used to make the first synthetic cell. The potential applications are diverse from biofuels to medicine. But what about the risks? Related articles Shakespeare’s sonnets encoded in DNA (guardian.co.uk) Huge Amounts Of Data Can Be Stored In DNA (news.sky.com)…
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