Tag Archives: Splice

Paleogenetics: Unlocking the secrets from DNA of long ago

Impact: Decoding DNA    March 6, 2011
Eighth in a series of posts inspired by ten topics in ‘Insights of the Decade’ from the December 17, 2010 special issue of Science Magazine The topics are: Inflammation, climatology, tricks of light, alien planets, the microbiome, cell reprogramming, Martian water, the DNA time machine, cosmology and epigenetics. The original articles are now behind a [...]
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Sci-Fi movie review: Splice

Review: November 21, 2010
[Splice. Directed by Vincenzo Natali. Released June, 2010. DVD/Blu-Ray released. As usual, the review contains many spoilers.] By the end it’s obvious Splice is a gothic horror movie. As science fiction it does have a modern biochemistry lab for a set, at least in the beginning; and the story is about gene splicing and synthetic [...]
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Synthetic life, as developed by Craig Venter et al

Impact: Synthetic Biology    May 20, 2010
May 21, 2010: This is one of those days when one story is likely to dominate the science news. It will also be writ large in the world’s news. Craig Venter, the name has to come first, and his research team has claimed creation of the first synthetic life. It should also be a good [...]
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