mike | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 24 2007 | craig venter, science, genetics, biology
Tom Knight at MIT was doing a similar experiment - what is the minimum set of genes needed to an artificial bactieria (or in this case - perhaps virus) to sustain itself.
Quoted: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation…
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 26 2007 | biology, botony, genetics, science
The model organism for study of plant genetics (first completely sequenced plant genome - in 2000).
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 06 2006 | biology, genetics, human, evolution, brain, rna, science
Freeman Dyson mentioned the HAR1 gene last night; he thinks it may be the most important discovery in biology since the double helix. I'd not heard of it before. Will be interesting to learn more...
Quoted: Found by scanning through giant genomic databases of multiple species, some of these highly mutated areas are thought to be responsible for development of human brain size, language, and complex thought.
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Pollard K. et. al. An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans. Advanced electronic publishing. Nature. August 16, 2006. - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2006 | science, biology, RNA, genetics
Early microRNA paper published in Science Sept. 2002.
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