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The oldest DNA ever found?
Genes ordered at your friendly Mr Gene’s store are as fresh as can be (a point of honour, of course!). That freshness, however, isn’t really the case with the “dirt DNA” that has been digged up by Danish biologist Eske Willerslev.
Willerslev, the head of the “Ancient DNA and Evolution” lab, is a professor at the […]
Harvard “EXPERTS” blow away 16 billion
Ever toyed with the idea of sending your spoiled offspring to a US-based elite academy, say Harvard University?
Forget it. Harvard, the oldest institution of higher learning in the US (world-renowned for its multi-billion foundation and its 43 Nobel laureates!), is setting its sights lower.
Most laureates are still aboard, but many billions vanished recently. Blown away! […]
And the winners are:
finally - all winners have received their iPods. Thanks for participating in Mr. Gene’s SynBio 4.0 iPod lottery!
#1
iPod® touch:
Martin Jennings, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
#2
iPod® nano:
Irina Borodina, PhD, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
#3 … 10
iPod® shuffle:
Nicholas Wall, Graduate Student, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Craig Ellermeier, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, USA
Filipe Pinto, PhD […]
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When Scientist play jokes …
This one’s about crop growing and gardening, no kidding!
However, the location is somewhat, well, strange…
Anyway – enjoy the comical incident when Erik Fransén, a Swedish researcher, went away on a Neuroscience conference in the USA for two weeks and noticed on his return that his computer keyboard had come to life.
You can read about the […]
