(Photo)Synthetic Endosymbiosis
Category: evolution
The story behind the story of my new PLoS ONE paper, "Towards a Synthetic Chloroplast."
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Great Balls of Evolution
Category: bacteria
cooperation + metabolism + hydrogen + electricity + evolution = AWESOME
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Making blind mice see
Category: medicine
Evolution connects all living things on earth, from the arsenic tolerant bacteria in the news this week to the human scientists and bloggers chatting about it. Eyes are intricately complex structures made up of many many cells, but even single-celled...
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Stop Motion History of Life
Category: art
An incredible (if unscientific) look at the history of life: The video has been around for a few months and has a gajillion hits so sorry if I'm late to the party, I just had to share! By Blu, via...
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Bring in the Noise
Category: evolution
Noise obscures meaningful information. Noise is what ruins your carefully designed synthetic biology gene circuit. But noise is part of life and life, it turns out, needs noise. There's a terrific review article in this week's Nature discussing recent...
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Terraforming
Category: astrobiology
Life transforms environments, creating ecosystems where there was once only rocks. The evolution of photosynthetic bacteria billions of years ago created the atmosphere we have today, paving the way for the evolution of larger, oxygen-breathing organisms. We humans obviously...
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Motion Sickness
Category: history
I have a very weak constitution. It doesn't take much time on a moving vehicle of any type to make be barf, and I've hurled all over gorgeous coastal areas in tourist destinations around the world. There was that...
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Sex, Gender, and Evolution
Category: gender
"The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics."
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Thinking About Aliens
Category: astrobiology
Are aliens little green men of unpredictable motives? Horrible insect-like face-hugging, chest-exploding monsters? Are they super-smart, super-slimy, super-fishy, body-cavity-probing, disc-flying creatures, searching for planets to colonize and people to destroy as Stephen Hawking warned, or are they something much more...
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Hydrogenosomes and the living matryoshka doll
Category: symbiosis
My two great thesis project loves are hydrogen and symbiosis, and as such, the recent news of a multicellular organism that lives in a completely oxygen free environment and gets its energy from hydrogenosomes instead of mitochondria is totally fascinating....
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