Dr. Post a cardiovascular biologist from Maastricht University brought his raw burger out in a petri dish under a cloche.
and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement
Bio meat seems like a good enough name. And it's probably what it will end up being called anyway.
Infographic Whether you can digest milk comfortably after childhood is a genetic fluke. For many people the ability to produce lactase--the enzyme that allows the body to break down lactase the sugar in milk--disappears after childhood
Lactase persistence--the gene that allows about a third of adults to drink milk without major digestive pains--tends to break down geographically as you can see in this infographic from Nature's history of milk tolerance.
It's largely a European phenomenon evolving from a single genetic mutation that occurred less than 10000 years ago.
Researchers estimate that the allele for lactase persistence might have popped up as recently as 7500 years ago starting in Hungary.
The small pockets of milk tolerance in the middle East West Africa and southern Asia are thought to be part of different genetic mutations.
It also produces a seed rich in an oil suitable for use as sustainable and environmentally-friendly biodiesel fuel.
and eventually producing biofuel. A potential unintended side-effect of such a project is a chance of increased cloud cover and rainfall.
not biology...not geology...not environmental engineering or conservation or meteorology or heck anything scientific at all...
It is a very competent agency with many educated biologists who have done extensive research on the wolf population...
This is poised to be a prime case study about how loudly consumer dollars can speak about genetic engineering.
Orange growers aren't the only ones who have avoided historically genetic modification because they know many shoppers are against it.
The New york times piece is a fascinating read bringing in the emotions around genetic engineering as well as the ominous danger to the fruit.
but perhaps it's related to our inate will to protect/promote our own genes at the expense of strangers we don't need.
Before 2000 pediatricians in the U s. routinely gave kids a polio vaccine that contained live attenuated polio virus. Now American kids get a vaccine with an inactivated
or killed virus. Very rarely the live virus in the older vaccine could actually revert to its natural state and cause paralysis a tragic consequence.
They already handle numerous viruses and bacteria all around them in everyday life. The U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend vaccines at very young ages
What they are calling for are third party unfunded and disconnected from the industry real studies on the long term effects of the additives to these vaccines
The same can be said about certain additives in food. You wouldn't give your children known carcinogens to eat would you?
Shots have dangerous additives in them (mercury aluminum formaldehyde and MSG. A Harvard study linked aluminum and fluoride to ADHD Alzheimer's and dementia.
And consider how many even know about polio vaccine containing the aã¢Â# attenuatedã¢Â# virus up until 2000
I don't believe there is such a thing as a live virus. They do not have any of the attributes of living things.
As more children have survived similarly we have a broader genome with sensitivities. The INDUSTRY does NOT test adjuvants for sensitivities.
and how they interact with the genome. So we may have a bigger pool of children sensitive to various adjuvants which many are put in just to lower the production costs not a true safety concern.
There are NEW studies showing new genome responses to many agents triggering reactions like autism. So for parents to TRUST vaccines NEW studies are needed.
Indeed parents may have to get their own genome mapped in order to know what is safe for them or not.
A real outbreak of polio or smallpox or something that will actually kill your face would probably have all of these sitting at home self proclaimed biology experts who without any real education speculate that hey I think personally that vaccines probably messes with our immune system
Monkeys contain simian viruses. 11 When the poliovirus was passaged through the monkeys or grown on the monkey kidney cells for production extrane g
ALL OF the mobile viruses are on Android and more every day. Combined with vendors being reluctant to update the system this makes using Android dangerous for nontechnical people
-and the more well off you are the more you have to lose in terms of a virus getting into a bank account or something else.
kgelner-name anyone you know have heard of anywhere at anytime in the US who has ever ever got a virus on Android.
Stats from virus scanner software doesn't count people who pirate apps don't count people in Russia an China don't count.
Inactivation of taste genes causes male sterilityhttp://www. mybiologica. com/4640/science-en/inactivation-of-taste-genes-causes-male-sterility. html...Scientists
Uno's team including biologists and geologists from the U s. Kenya and the U k. use mass spectrometry to determine the amount of carbon-14 a rare radioactive isotope of carbon appears in an animal tissue.
Genetic biologists have been trying to combine the strengths of each for some time now and researchers have managed just to compare the DNA
By looking at the comparison between domestic and wild strains they can tell which specific genes are active
Essentially the team managed to get a complete look at the genomes of both domestic and wild tomatoes and examined the effect of both natural evolution and artificial selection (the latter
and trace the way individual genes interact to affect the whole fruit. One species for example is found in the desert
and has accelerated genes to tolerate extreme heat and lack of water. Theoretically the comparison could allow genetic biologists to pick out exactly which genes they want to splice to have desired the effect on the tomato.
This is a huge step forward; crossbreeding of wild and domestic tomatoes is common but kind of a crapshoot since previously the relationship between genes wasn't as well understood.
This may help with future efforts to breed new traits into tomato or other crops said Julin Maloof of the University of California Davis who was one of the lead researchers on the paper.
Comparative genomics is used often on diseases to figure out the relationships between different strains but this is the first time it's been applied to tomatoes.
But if genetic modification can give us a tomato that's got the taste and texture of an heirloom with the ease of growth lack of disease and ease of transport of a hothouse tomato we're on board.
The pathogen shares the same genus as the organism that caused The irish potato famine. Other Phytophthora species are able to infect almost all of the fruit and nut trees people plant around the world.
This was caused the sort by something in my genes. The doctors said that I had probably been born with a bad pancreas at the start.
I suspect my ridiculously good health is more good gene's and a good mental attitude than anything the scientific community can quantify.
earlier this week the Expert Panel on Bioethics of the Council for Science and Technology Policy Japan's federal science advisory board recommended the laws be changed to allow Nakauchi's work.
and also involves some genetic manipulation and almost certainly some inhumane treatment of animals. How happy are those pancreas-less piglets really?
Now a team of biologists has determined that sold produce still responds to cycles of light
The biologists from Rice university in Texas and the University of California at Davis performed a series of experiments on Arabidopsis thaliana plants exposed to 12-hour cycles of light and dark.
The biologists then tried the same experiment but instead of using whole plants they used circular discs cut out from cabbage leaves.
The hungry hungry caterpillar-repelling effect worked for about a week after the cabbage was harvested the biologists discovered.
Shoppers usually buy cabbage 24 to 72 hours after it's harvested the biologists found after talking with grocers.
The effect also works with other foods the biologists tested including lettuce spinach zucchini sweet potatoes carrots and blueberries.
but they must make another natural insect repellant the biologists wrote. One preliminary study has suggested glucosinolates may be part of the reason why people who eat lots of cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage
If grocers maintained day-night cycles for their wares they might maintain more healthful chemicals for shoppers to consume the biologists wrote.
Nevertheless it's cool to know that all those carrots lying quietly on their shelves are actually doing live plant biochemistry
The Texan-Californian team published their work today in the journal Current Biology y
#A Plan For The World's Tallest Wood Skyscraperlook at this futuristic skyscraper design! Construction for it would dump less CO2 into the atmosphere than traditional steel construction!
It has all the colors of an oil puddle in the sun. Yet the real weirdos are our familiar yellow-and-black honeybees says U s. Geological Survey biologist Sam Droege.
and viruses that honeybees do and they don't have the same social order Droege says.
Dr. Mayumi Ito a stem cell biologist and dermatologist at NYU's Langone Medical center recently published a paper in
So what if in the absence of natural Wnts you used genetic engineering to force tissue to produce these proteins?
and your limb regeneration potion is done. That concludes todays potions lesson. Amazing. Don't see why it would not also work on spinal cord injuries?
I read from a peer reviewed research paper that in the early 1960's Johns Hopkins had verified a case of finger regeneration at that facility.
Enough scientific data was collected to state conditions for expected successful regeneration. The oldest patient was 11 years old.
I read from a peer reviewed research paper that in the early 1960's Johns Hopkins had verified a case of finger regeneration at that facility.
Enough scientific data was collected to state conditions for expected successful regeneration. The oldest patient was 11 years old.
#European Bee Sperm bank Will Improve U s. Bee Gene Poolhere's a new idea for protecting the declining honeybee population in the U s. One team of scientists is importing European honeybee semen for fun
An injection of European sperm will diversify the American bee gene pool however which may lead to healthier American insects.
The sperm bank brings unique genetic diversity to America's bees. Since 1922 when scientists discovered a parasite was likely causing large bee die offs in England the U s. has restricted the import of live bees from overseas.
For decades the bans protected U s. bees from the 1922 parasite but they made the U s. bee gene pool small.
The semen is screened for viruses before it comes into the U s. That means of course that the task of collecting bee semen falls upon the U s. team's colleagues overseas.
#Using Wood As Biofuel May be Worse For The Planet Than We Thoughttimber harvesting may release significant amounts of carbon into the atmosphere according to a new study.
Policymakers should reevaluate calls to boost the use of trees for biofuel the researchers recommend.
Forest biomass currently comprises about 75 percent of global biofuel production. The study appears in the journal Global Change Biology-Bioenergy.
Wait you're telling me that burning large amounts of wood and other biofuels puts carbon into the atmosphere?
That's preposterous.//rolls eyesany sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Clarkewere trees replanted (like tree harvests for timber
Food just seems to pop up like this obnoxious biological need that I need to get rid of he says.
One of those DIYERS is my friend Tom a chemical engineering grad student at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor the town over from where
This August in London Dr. Mark Post's team from Maastricht University is at long last going to serve up the famous burger made from beef cells grown in a laboratory bioreactor.
What they found was that a critical gene called Bmp4 switches on causing developing genitals to wither away.
In other birds like ducks and emus that gene stays switched off allowing their penises to grow fully.
Their findings will be published in this week's journal Current Biology...In some birds they grow a little too fully:
Behaviorally worthy males stop passing on their genes and the young suffer the species dies out.
With the discovery of DNA and the advent of microbiology and mega computing power all manner of evidences are being discovered
and how. 3) Give an example ANY example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process
which can be seen to increase the information in the genome. Here's a hint: anybody who can produce the FACTUAL proof to any of these simple questions will be the next Nobel prize winner.
It's like where in the world are the genes we're looking for? Shannon Pinson a USDA geneticist tells Popular Science.
In the future the USDA hopes such knowledge will help breeders create rice varieties that may help with mineral deficiencies in developing countries where rice is a staple.
Once scientists find the genes that are responsible for mineral levels the next step in their research they'll hand that information over to plant breeders.
Breeders create new varieties of rice the old-fashioned way by reproducing only the plants with the genes they want.
Even identifying and targeting specific genes is a well-known technique that researchers have honed since the 1980s.
Most of the rice as well as the corn and wheat that Americans buy in grocery stores have benefitted from these non-engineering genetic techniques Pinson says.
however because it involves many genes. It also involves many interacting minerals. You don't want to increase the calcium in rice for example only to decrease magnesium at the same time.
So cooked rice texture which is controlled by one gene came first. Then resistance to a fungus called blast.
even if it's bred using the genetic knowledge Pinson develops may still be grown organically. Two roughly half of the rice the U s. grows is exported
And backing it up without proof only âÂ#Âoeseemsã¢Â#Â. As well as misinformation such as equating selective breeding with genetic manipulation.
The Magicicada the genus of cicada that's about to blanket the northeast United states is a very odd creature.
there is a gene that differentiates the 17-year cicadas from the 13-year cicadas but says Gilbert we don't really have any way to see what the hell they're doing down there for 17 years.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology took dried plants some from as far back as 170 years ago
They've named the new strain HERB-1. This is the first time that scientists have decoded the genome of a plant pathogen from dried plants
Formed from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel biofuel and biomass it is emitted directly into the atmosphere
It's unlikely that this clone could develop into a human say the scientists a team of biologists from the U s. and Thailand.
Mitalipov is a biologist who studies cells and development at the Oregon Health and Science University.
and transplanted them into eggs that had their own genetic material removed. They then grew the eggs for a few days harvested the daughter cells that appeared
Human eggs and Human cells worked just as poorly as human cell and rabbit eggs right down to specific genes.
So is a biological system with the future potential to develop into a person itself an actual person or not?
Study of embryonic stem cells will further our understanding of developmental biology which will lead to a better understanding of embryogenesis potentially leading to currently unavailable treatments for debilitating congenital disorders
. I know it sounds like the beginning of a low-budget killer-virus movie but it's real.
They actually do carry a virus that's harmless to monkeys but 80%fatal to humans!
while infected with the herpes B virus . Although the herpes B virus is not harmful to the monkeys once transmitted to a human the virus infection has an almost 80%fatality rate (Shemcreeks).
The CDC report stated that there were outbreaks among locals when the monkeys became overpopulated. Puerto rico was alarmed by this
Earth's biosphere is incredibly dynamic and complex; definitely not a closed system. It's affected by solar storms the solar wind solar radiation Milankovitch cycles.
You can find her new study in the journal Current Biology. Much ado about tasting but I get a completely different inspiration watching the person doing the tasting lol.
We can even screen the entire genome in great gulps of DNA at a time looking for the signature of rapid selection in our genes.
just by chance no genetic variants have been born that lacked the detrimental traits or more likely altering one's esophagus to prevent hiccups would entail unacceptable changes in another part of the anatomy.
As we humans are created to serve the GODS our biology did distant itself from being naturally harmonious with the environment.
and the ferocious lion by culling the most dangerous maneaters from their gene pool for thousands upon thousands of years.
and their genes must die with them. That being said humans can adapt to higher altitudes just like humans can adapt to not get seasick easily
With the lack of selective pressure of predation or disease in many developed countries the minor genetic mutations that would give rise to evolutionary traits under natural circumstances simply stay in the population and compound.
Researchers are making headway in mapping the genes that help bees overcome these obstacles including
which genes help them safely break down pesticides. Now researchers have identified several compounds that help turn on those genes.
They're present in honey something commercial bees don't get to keep--their food supply is taken for human use
Wenfu Mao and colleagues found three compounds in honey that increase the expression of a gene that helps bees metabolize pesticides.
After comprehensive testing and development p-coumaric acid may à   nd use as an additive to honey substitutes to allow beekeepers to maintain colonies during food shortages the authors write without compromising the ability
which points to their guesswork genetics that have continuously been presented to us as beneficial not harmful.
because it might show that these GM CROPS actually have no real place on our world.
and the effects of aerosol-related air quality directives the response of the biosphere has to be considered they write.
In fact it's the only member of its genus so it's not that closely related to any other species
the whole biodiversity and supporting billions of people argument.@@Frost particularly I think you would pride yourself on believing in evolution.
Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech set out to make it a food source.
and dedicated bioenergy crops that can grow on marginal land and require low inputs they write.
when the new science of genetics undermined the plausibility of the rival theories of evolution following the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900.
I suspect that in a world without Darwin it would have taken until the early twentieth century for the theory of natural selection to come to the attention of most biologists.
In our world evolutionary developmental biology had to challenge the simpleminded gene-centered Darwinism of the 1960s to generate a more sophisticated paradigm.
If biology ultimately develops toward the same end product why should anyone care about the possibility that the major discoveries might have been made in an order different from the one we actually experienced?
While Darwin was first to publish a coherent theory of biological evolution and he deserves much credit for doing
just as about the moral and spiritual implications of modern genetics as Creationists are. So why do Creationists continue to attack Darwin a man who was as afraid of his own discoveries as they are today
and we are the product of lucky genetic mistakes I guess you could believe someone else would have got us to the same place.@
(and Mendelssohn too-for that matter) is genetic adaptability. There does appear to be excess code and variability of traits that go unnoticed in the short term.
which we call biological tissue. Light is a collection of little packets of energy called photons that whiz through the air.
when they enter biological tissue. You can think of a photon as a drunk person walking through a forest.
Before it gets detected by your eye a single photon that penetrates a biological tissue (like skin) will randomly scatter within the tissue many times.
head over to this online biophotonics course. P. S. Stay tuned for next time's discussion about imaging cats through a layers of milk another wonder of light diffusion.
The tags which are frequently methyl groups control gene expression which in turn affects how an organism behaves.
Both the chemical tags and the behavior they induce appear to be reversible says Arizona State university biologist Gro Amdam.
Humans also carry epigenetic tags that may affect their behavior Scientists found methyl groups attached to a stress-hormone-receptor gene in child-abuse victims who committed suicide.
Forager When most nurse bees turn two to three weeks old the gene expression in their brains changes
Drone Male honeybees which carry only one set of chromosomes fertilize the queen's eggs.
Genes: Epigenetic tags such as methyl groups determine how much of a gene is expressed or whether the gene is expressed at all.
Proteins: The tags also dictate how pieces of genes are assembled into an mrna transcript which eventually determines the type of protein made from that gene.
A protein produced in a nurse bee will look different and serve a different function than one produced in a forager.
Queens per Hive: 1workers per Queen: 10000ã¢Â#Â0000average Lifespan of a Worker bee in Months:
3managed Honeybee Colonies in 2011 in the U s.:2. 49 Millionsee the rest of the articles from our 2013 How It Works section here
me that it worked at all says Catherine Loudon a physical biologist at UC-Irvine and lead researcher of the new study You see this big muscular bug vigorously struggling
which means it is unlikely that even a crafty biomimetic material will be a final solution for a bed bug infestation
Man-made nuclear radiation is wreaking havoc on human genetics human health and our environment. NEW Gallup Poll:
Studies of occupational workers who are exposed chronically to low levels of radiation above normal background have shown no adverse biological effects. http://www. nrc. gov/about-nrc/radiation/health-effects/rad
#Scientists Build Hollow Virus For Cheaper Vaccinescall it hollow-hearted. Researchers have built a mimic of the outer capsule of the foot-and-mouth disease virus. Inside where the virus'genetic material normally lives is empty.
Such synthetic virus-like particles could go into a foot -and-mouth vaccine that's cheaper to make
because it doesn't require the tight biosecurity that a factory that makes vaccines from live viruses needs its creators say.
The researchers have built also the virus mimic in such a way that it can stay out of a refrigerator for longer than current foot
-and-mouth vaccines so it could ship more easily around the world. In the future the same techniques could apply to vaccines to the polio virus which belongs to a large group of viruses related to hoof
-and-mouth Andrew Macadam a polio researcher at the U k. National Institute for Biological Standards and Control told the BBC.
Polio vaccines are made now with either weakened or killed polio viruses. The weakened type still carries a small risk of reverting to its original form
and causing paralysis. That vaccine is used no longer in the U s . but some other countries give it out
The hollow virus works because its outside stimulates the immune system to create antibodies against it.
Because it doesn't have any genetic material inside however it can't revert to an active form
The instructions for the virus'spread never exist not even in the factory. There's still plenty of testing to do before the newly created virus shell can be used as a vaccine however.
The empty virus'creators a team of researchers from the U k. have tested the synthetic virus in just eight cattle.
Five of the cattle showed resistance to foot -and-mouth infection after getting immunized. The U k. might have particular interest in driving this research forward.
@ssiletti--Its probably the result of some sort of failed weapons test to disguise a virus that has a high mortality rate with one the body may not react as violently to n
#California Working on First Commercial Biofuel From Beetsninety-five percent of the ethanol fuel produced in the U s. comes from corn
If the experiment works California will build a larger plant in 2016 that would become the U s.'first commercial sugar beet biorefinery the AP reported.
The biofuel could go into specially-designed ethanol vehicles as well as regular U s. gasoline most of which is composed of 10 percent ethanol.
Europe has more than a dozen beet biorefineries the AP reported. California has grown also successfully sugar beets before.
When companies like Atlantic Bioenergy Corporation and Monsanto the largest seed and biotechnology company in the world have the same interests this is unlikely to also be in the interests of the environment or farmers.
The proposed biofuels plant creates an entirely new market for Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet.
In North america GE sugar beet for biofuels would have been an ideal public relations coup for Monsanto but one that could have cost farmers and consumers in the long run.
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