Get your clone uncontaminated
It’s not unusual for a paternity test to reveal unpleasant truths about the kiddy (and its genitor).
The outcome of a Texas paternity test in May, however, wasn’t only unusual - it was crazy. Here’s the story.
A mother and her fiancĂ© decided to take a paternity test due to the puzzling different facial features of their […]
Lousy DNA analysis fools German police
The mysterious phantom killer the German police was searching after for years has finally been identified: it is a cotton swab. The photo below shows the wrongdoer after its arrest by a police investigator.
The search was extensive and sometimes extremely dangerous as you can see on this top secret snapshot taken by accident in 2004 […]
Cool youtube movies #1
Tired of everyday’s boring lab routine? Let’s change the channel and take a look at YouTube where really cool stuff can be found, such as …
… the Large Hadron Rap (referring to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider) whose backup-dancers, ha-ha, prefer anonymity, according to the credits (and I know why they prefer it!).
A more comical clip […]
The most useful genome for committing a crime
What is the optimal qualification to get out of a tight spot after you have committed a crime? Coolness? Unscrupulousness? Brutality? Exceptional intelligence? Or stupid constables (LOL)?
The unexpected answer is that the optimal qualification for a thug to get away without punishment is to have the adequate, well, genome. No, dude, I am not speaking […]
The web’s most popular genes
Recently, your Mr. Gene was crouching in front of his good old computer when, all of a sudden, it crossed his mind to google the word, well, “gene”.
Having performed this, Mr. Gene proudly presents the ultimate Gene Ranking, powered by Google:
1) Placed 1st is Gene, Elsevier’s International Journal of Functional and Evolutionary Genomics. If you […]
Spitting and popping genes
Did you ever toy with the idea of having your own DNA analysed? You didn’t? Well, 25-year-old reporter girl Boonsri Dickinson from the NYC-based Discover magazine did.
Dickinson spat and popped, then she sent, ugh!, saliva and cheek cells by mail and subsequently was disclosed frightening things.
DNA testing isn’t no more bloody expensive. There are a […]
Quicker change - conventional vs. convenient mutant generation
This success story was provided by Dr. B. Pohn & Dr. S. Feichtenhofer (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Austria)
11 mutations and a deletion at one sweep
evolving mutant generation from conventional to convenient
To answer the question concerning the correlation between a structural feature of a wild-type enzyme and the activity towards a […]
No More Needles!!
This one’s a plea for more pleasant consultations. In other words: I never want to be scared to death again when visiting the doctor.
When I recently had a routine check at my GP, he noticed that my immunisation protection against Tetanus bacteria (given by a combined Td-Polio vaccine) had expired. He smiled maliciously – and […]
Mad Scientists and their Life Forms
You consider yourself an unorthodox, free-thinking mind? Well, I am afraid you missed a crucial deadline: a definitely weird but also inspiring competition has found its winners without you.
I refer to the world’s first “mad science contest” (themed “Build a Life Form and We’ll Send You to Hong Kong”). Searching for “biology to be brazen”, […]
Mr. Gene’s SynBio 4.0 - ipod lottery - Register Now!
Register at http://mrgene.com/synbio
1st place: iPod touch
2nd place: iPod nano
3rd to 10th place: iPod shuffle
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