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Domestication – it’s a matter of time (always is for me, that’s my ‘hammer’...

Since this article came out in The American Scientist (the only pop-sci magazine that IMHO has not gone downhill in quality over the past decade) in early 1999 (you can read the entire thing here...

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When science bloggers publish, then blog about it ;-)

On Tuesday night, when I posted my personal picks from this week’s crop of articles published in PLoS ONE, I omitted (due to a technical glitch on the site), to point out that a blog-friend of mine...

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Light-Responsive genes in rice

Friendly blogger Pamela Roland, the author of Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food which I am reading right now (and which was recently reviewed in PLoS Biology), has...

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How to BLAST Sarah Palin

Jonathan describes, step by step. I wonder if there are any palindromic sequences to be found?

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Wikipedia, just like an Organism: clock genes wiki pages

The October issue of the Journal of Biological Rhythms came in late last week – the only scientific journal I get in hard-copy these days. Along with several other interesting articles, one that...

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UNC scientists comment in support of fruit fly research for understanding autism

As a follow-up to the yesterday’s press release, Dr. Manzoor Bhat and Joseph Piven, M.D., researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who use the Drosophila model system to study...

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The map is in the bag, but the sequence may yet reveal if kangaroos have...

There is an utterly confusing press release out today – Australian First: Kangaroo Genome Mapped: Australian researchers are launching the world first detailed map of the kangaroo genome, completing...

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Humanity’s Path (video)

This shows how waves of humans spread throughout the world from their origins in Africa over a period of some 50,000 years. The video was created by geneticist Daniel Falush of University College Cork...

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Meetings I’d like to go to….Part V

Genetic Manipulation of Pest Species: Ecological and Social Challenges: In the past 10 years major advances have been made in our ability to build transgenic pest strains that are conditionally...

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Science Cafe, Raleigh: Gene-Environment Interactions

From SCONC: Tuesday, March 24 6:30-8:30 pm Science Cafe, Raleigh: Gene-Environment Interactions EPA statistician and geneticist David Reif discusses the interplay between our genes and the environment....

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From cloning to stem cells: How can pigs help us solve problems in human...

From Sigma Xi: NCSU molecular biologist Jorge Piedrahita has cloned pigs and explored why they are not carbon copies despite sharing the same DNA. Now he is trying to crack puzzles that could result in...

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Do you love or hate Cilantro?

If you think that political or religious debates can get nasty, you haven’t seen anything until you go online as see how much hate exists between people who love cilantro and those who hate cilantro....

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Hardware or Software: Searching for the Genetic Basis for Biological Diversity

Are you up to date on the hot debate in biology regarding how genes influence evolution? Some scientists contend genes are in the driver’s seat. Others assign more pull to regulatory factors...

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Science Cafe Raleigh: Dog Genome: Teaching Scientists New Tricks

Dog Genome: Teaching Scientists New Tricks November 17th; 6:30-8:30 pm with discussion beginning at 7:00 followed by Q&A The Irregardless Café, 901 W. Morgan Street, Raleigh 919.833.8898 This year,...

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Can Genetically Engineered Crops Help Feed the World?

A new forum at World Science is up. As always, listen to the podcast first, then ask questions in the forum: This week, India rejected what would have been the country’s first a genetically modified...

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American Scientist pizza lunch – genomic and personalized medicine

From the American Scientist: Our American Scientist pizza lunch talk falls later than usual this month to accommodate our magazine’s May-June issue deadline. Keep open the noon hour on March 30 and...

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Personalized Medicine: Too Much Information / Too Little Information

Next American Scientist Pizza Lunch: It’s not often that we get to dive a little deeper into a topic encountered at a recent pizza lunch talk. But we will this month. In March, Geoff Ginsburg from Duke...

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It’s not genetic (video)

Filed under: Fun, Genetics

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The Benefits and Burdens of Genetic Testing

New podcast and forums at World Science: The Benefits and Burdens of Genetic Testing: Listen to a story by reporter Marina Giovannelli, followed by our interview with Mayana Zatz. Download MP3 Our...

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UC Berkeley Genetic Testing Affair: Science vs Science Education – guest post...

Marie-Claire Shanahan is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. As a former science teacher, she was always surprised by the ways that...

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