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Regenesis: Taking over biology using readily available materials from your kitchen
Posted by Greg Laden on December 3, 2012 
I might be exaggerating slightly about the ready availability of the materials… Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church and Ed Regis looks like a futurist tome on what could happen when technology finally catches up with human imagination and everything changes. Except it isn’t. Most futurists are people with…
Do you hate or like Cilantro? Turns out, it’s genetic. Science Teachers Take Note!
Posted by Greg Laden on September 12, 2012 A number of lines of evidence have converged on the apparent fact that how you feel about Cilantro is a relatively simple genetic system. That Cilantro hatred is inherited genetically and not culturally has long been suspected, but now it is becoming clear enough that this could be a new module in the Science Classroom…
Why didn’t Darwin discover Mendel’s laws?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 27, 2009 Perhaps we are all subject to falling into the trap of what I call the Hydraulic Theory of Everything. If you eat more you will be bigger, if you eat less you will be smaller. Emotional states are the continuously varying outcome of different levels of a set of hormones, forming “happy” or “stressy” or…
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