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Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life"

Category: Cell Biology

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they've created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science....

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Apparently, cells have been created from ... Science!

Category: Cell Biology

Scientists are reporting that they have made a living cell from DNA that was originally synthesized in a lab. This isn't quite a synthetic organism. But the result is an important, and some would say troubling step on the road to creating life in...

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Science Pornography: You must be 18 years or older to view this blog post

Category: Evolutionary Biology

It turns out I write academia erotica! I can tell you that the three dimensional visual imagery in the post to which Stephanie refers was a replacement for the actual visual imagery I had in mind when I wrote it. But I couldn't use that...

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Diatoms Large and Small

Category: Evolution

Diatoms are algae with hard parts. They make up a major part of the plankton found in fresh and salt water environments. Usually, diatoms exist as single celled free floating organisms, but they can also be colonies of several single cells. Their tiny little 'shells'...

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I do not advocate this cookbook.

Category: Cell Biology

But it might be worth thumbing through it just for fun ... You must be over 18 to read the rest of tis blog post. ------------------------- the fold -----------------------------...

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When biology nerds get themselves a camera

Category: Cell Biology

The original video couldn't make it, so here's a substitute teacher video:...

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Allen's Rule, Phenotypic Plasticity, and The Nature of Evolution

Allen's Rule. One of those things you learn in graduate school along with Bergmann's Rule and Cope's Rule. It is all about body size. Cope's Rule ... which is a rule of thumb and not an absolute ... says that over time the species in...

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Human Cell Chasing Bacteria

Category: Cell Biology

hat tip IBY...

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The role of vitamin D in beta-cell function

Category: Cell Biology

Sue Lynn Lau chose classical ballet and highly kinetic party dancing as the way to interpret her Ph.D. thesis, "The role of vitamin D in beta-cell function." As The Nutcracker Suite lilts in the background, Lau, a graduate student from the Garvan Institute of Medical...

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Giant Gromia (amoebas) may account for ancient sea floor tracks

Category: Cell Biology

A protist is a single celled eukaryotic organism, and they are usually pretty small. You can often see them, though! Before you put that sample of pond water under the microscope, take a close look: Many protists are at the boundary of visibility for humans....

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