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Stranger Visions, Portrait Sculptures Generated from Genetic Material Found in Public Places
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posted 08 May, 2013
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Jawbone found in 1957 could be the first known remains of a Neanderthal/human hybrid
Scientists now know that mating and offspring did occur between humans in Neanderthals, but it looks like we now have tangible proof. Actually, we’ve had the proof in our possession since 1957, but we didn’t have the techniques and the genetic knowledge for someone to test the jawbone until now. And it looks like this old jawbone likely did come from a Neanderthal/human hybrid.
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posted 10 April, 2013
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De-extinction is a real thing that we can do now, but should we?
While the dream of bringing dinosaurs back to life might never happen, genetic science is at a point where we could bring other, more recently vanished species back to life. It won’t be long before “de-extinction” becomes a thing, where we can undo some of the extinction that either we, or nature as a whole have caused, and now that we’re here, we’re asking whether we should.
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posted 16 March, 2013
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Are you the adventurous type of woman who might want to carry a Neanderthal baby?
There’s a good possibility in the future that scientists may be able to bring Neanderthals back to life using the power of genetics, but in order for that to happen, it’s going to require a human woman to carry the Neanderthal in her womb. So if you think you have the uterine fortitude to carry a fetal hominid that’s several times stronger than a human being, you could be the Eve of the new Neanderthal.
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posted 21 January, 2013
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Scientific community split on studying Adam Lanza’s DNA for genetic abnormalities
After something as tragic as the Sandy Hook massacre, everyone is looking for answers wherever they might be found. In a groundbreaking study, scientists will be examining deceased shooter Adam Lanza’s DNA to see if there are any genetic markers that may indicate someone who has the potential to do something as unthinkable as murdering children. Maybe there might be something there to point out severe mental illness, maybe not.
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posted 28 December, 2012
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Scientists claim homosexuality isn’t specifically in the genes but in the womb
It’s an argument that has found some traction in anti-gay movements that want to label homosexuality as a “curable affliction”, but a group of scientists have new evidence that there isn’t a “gay gene”, but that it’s about epigenetics, or genetic traits that are expressed through external factors, mainly from within the womb. In a nutshell, it means that the traits that express themselves are genetic and can be passed down, but there isn’t a single gene or exact gene sequence that in and of itself causes homosexuality.
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posted 11 December, 2012
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Genetics researchers create a fish with legs. Because that’s what you do when you’re a genetic researcher.
If you’re getting paid to research and experiment with genetics, I would think you would be doing a disservice to the world if you weren’t doing crazy shit like inventing fish with legs. That’s exactly what biologists Renata Frietas and colleagues did when they injected genes into a zebrafish embryo to force it to grow legs.
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posted 11 December, 2012
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For the first time, scientists snap a picture of DNA’s double helix structure
In 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis Crick first described the structure of DNA as a double helix. They knew they were correct, and their findings have been backed up by over a half century of science, but until just now, no one’s actually seen and photographed the double helix structure. Here it is.
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posted 30 November, 2012
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Sasquatch DNA analyzed, seems to be an unknown hominid species
Whenever someone claims to have found Bigfoot or any part of him, the question of DNA evidence always comes up. Well now, a lab in Texas says they’ve analyzed DNA from from supposed Bigfoot hair has yielded surprising results— it’s not human, but it’s not human. I WANT TO BELIEVE.
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posted 28 November, 2012
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Does reality itself have a genetic basis?
A very interesting and kinda mind-blowing hour long talk by theoretical physicist James Gates on the idea of reality as a program, and how some of the “code” for reality itself may be in our DNA.
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posted 21 November, 2012
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All female species survive by stealing the DNA of other creatures
Whether it’s plant, animal or other, most species have developed a system of using males and females to create genetic diversity. But for bdelloid rotifers, since they’re all female, they create diversity by stealing DNA from other critters.
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posted 17 November, 2012
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Newly discovered gene is what separates man from other apes, could explain intelligence
What separates man from the other apes and the rest of the animal kingdom? Toilet paper? Abstract thought? Nuclear weapons? Scientists at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland think they’ve discovered a sort of “missing link” gene that could be that tiny 1% that makes all the difference between humans and our primate cousins.
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posted 15 November, 2012
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Brazil to clone wild animals on the verge of extinction
Since it holds the of the Amazon River and the Amazon basin, Brazil has a huge wealth of natural resources in the form of life. But as chunks of the rainforest disappear, so do entire species of plants and animals. In order to preserve some of that diversity, Brazil will start cloning some of its wildlife to ensure it lasts.
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posted 12 November, 2012
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Imagine a future where printable life forms are a thing
Right now, we’re only on the very near edge of the 3D printing future. 3D printing with plastic has become affordable on a consumer level and 3D printing with harder materials is starting to make its way slowly into commercial manufacturing. There are printers that can print baked goods, and in the future, scientists may be printing life forms out of chunks of DNA, like Spore, only in real life. Get ready for a future of real life penis monsters.
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posted 19 October, 2012
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Boy banned from school for having bad genes. Welcome to the future.
It’s good public health sense to have a kid not go to school if they’re carrying some really nasty, highly contagious disease, but one 11 year old in California was removed from school simply because he carries the gene for cystic fibrosis, even though he doesn’t have the disease.
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posted 18 October, 2012
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