Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Jan 24th, 2008
No sooner had I written about the universe giving us the flagellum than Craig Venter, given to us by the universe, has announced that artificial life — or at least a first synthetic genome — is almost here. Perhaps we’ll need to add a branch back to the family tree of life! Or start [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 9th, 2007
There’s a fine article in the New Yorker about retroviruses and their role in human evolution. It explains why we don’t lay eggs any more, among other things. And the explanation is beautiful and elegant.
The idea that paleovirology will shed light on our evolutionary past is a blast. That we carry a lot of DNA [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 18th, 2007
There’s a fine article in Wired on how you can have your genome sequenced for $1,000. Clearly, it’ll be $100 before too much longer.
The rate of change of progress in the genomics business is reminiscent of that in electronics and magnetic storage, but so far new knowledge hasn’t resulted in many tangible benefits, which is [...]
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