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Christina's Thoughts
| 6th of July, '09 12:24 pm Kitties! Cute little kittens! ^_^ Interesing article, too. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31586820/ns/us_news-environment/ Tell her what you think | |
| 13th of May, '09 01:29 am ( Previous Books )
7. Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers
An interesting book. It took me a while to read it, as various things kept keeping me from getting a chance to sit down and read. It's also fairly long (475 pages, excluding references) and highly detailed. It describes selfish genetic material (selfish genes, meiotic drive genes, B chromosomes, endosymbiotes, etc.) in a wide range of organisms, mostly eukaryotes (and especially multicellular ones), but also prokaryotes. It's also fairly technical. It's definitely a great book if you're intrested in the topic and know a fair amount about it already. Current Mood:  geeky
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| 29th of April, '09 01:24 pm This is interesting. http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/resistance-to-an-extinct-virus-makes-us-more-vulnerable-to-hiv/
Immunity to viral infections sounds like a good thing, but it can come at a price. Millions of years ago, we evolved resistance to a virus that plagued other primates. Today, that virus is extinct, but our resistance to it may be making us more vulnerable to the present threat of HIV. Current Mood:  contemplative
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| 22nd of April, '09 09:39 pm This is cool. http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/04/puijila_the_walking_seal_beautiful_transitional_fossil.php
A fossil of a proto-seal has been discovered, from before the development of flippers.
I like this line in the article:
She named it Puijila darwini after an Inuit word referring to a young seal, and some obscure biologist.
Interestingly, it's in the same kind of environment that Darwin had predicted the ancestors of seals would be found.1 has told her what they think - Tell her what you think | |
| 18th of April, '09 08:08 pm GTCA! Ha! Bionerd music videos FTW! ^_^ Promotional videos, actually, for specific lab equipment, which makes it even funnier, I think.
http://www.eppendorf.com/int/hawkpopup.php?contentid=13
Current Mood:  amused
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| 24th of February, '09 05:37 pm Woah ... this is really cool! http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/weird-eyed_fish.php
A deep-ocean fish was recently discovered with a transparent skull and eyes that are embedded inside said transparent skull! In other words, it views the world through its skull! 1 has told her what they think - Tell her what you think | |
| 15th of January, '09 08:55 pm Oooh! Possible evidence of microbial life on Mars! Pretty strong evidence, too. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/01/15/live-blogging-the-mars-methane-mystery-aliens-at-last/
One way or another, that will prove to be something significant, as there is no known abiological process that could cause that. So, either there's life, or there's some weird chemical process that we've never heard of. Either way, it's something big! Tell her what you think | |
| 9th of January, '09 03:35 am Wow!
( Self-Replicating Chemicals Evolve Into Life-Like Ecosystem )
This is huge! For the first time, we have something that may be similar to actual pre-cellular life! We are getting close to the very origins of life! Evolution without cells! Or even DNA!
And that it occurred in the Year of Darwin is a rather nice coincidence. :-) Tell her what you think | |
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