‘Yeti Bones’ Were Actually Just Bears, DNA Analysis Shows
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Researchers Convert Human Bacteria into World’s Tiniest Tape Recorder
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Researchers Converted Human Gut Bacteria into World’s Tiniest Data Recorder
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The Latest Effort to Map the Weed Genome Will Focus on Pot That Doesn’t Get You High
Scientists at the University of California Davis have launched a new project studying the hemp DNA sequence. Continue reading The Latest Effort to Map the Weed Genome Will Focus on Pot That Doesn’t Get You High
Rosalind Franklin Saw DNA First
It’s a standard science trivia question: Who discovered the structure of DNA? With the basic concepts of molecular biology now taught at a fairly detailed level in grade school, and with DNA being so easy to isolate that it makes a good demonstration project for school or home, everyone knows the names of Watson and Crick. But not many people know the story behind one of the greatest scientific achievements of the 20th century, or the name of the scientist without whose data Watson and Crick were working blind: Rosalind Franklin.
Born in London in 1920, Rosalind Elsie Franklin was …read more
Scientists Used CRISPR to Edit a Gene That Causes Miscarriages
The gene editing technology could eventually herald the next frontier in fertility treatment. Continue reading Scientists Used CRISPR to Edit a Gene That Causes Miscarriages
Fears raised about accuracy of new forensic DNA techniques
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Cheap and Easy Magnetic DNA Separation Method Needs Your Help
When you consider that almost every single cell in your body has more than a meter of DNA coiled up inside its nucleus, it seems like it should be pretty easy to get some to study. But with all the other cellular gunk in a crude preparation, DNA can be quite hard to isolate. That’s where this cheap and easy magnetic DNA separation method comes in. If it can be optimized and tested with some help from the citizen science community.
Commercial DNA separation methods generally involve mixing silica beads into crude cell fractions; the DNA preferentially binds to the …read more
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Living Logic: Biological Circuits for the Electrically Minded
Did you know you can build fundamental circuits using biological methods? These aren’t your average circuits, but they work just like common electrical components. We talk alot about normal silicon and copper circuits ‘roud here, but it’s time to get our hands wet and see what we can do with the power of life!
In 1703, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published his Explication de l’Arithmétique Binaire (translated). Inspired by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese classic, Leibniz established that the principles of arithmetic and logic could be combined and represented by just 1s and 0s. Two hundred years later in …read more
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Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand
One of the common ways to hack a computer is to mess with its input data. That is, if you can feed the computer data that it interprets — or misinterprets — in a particular way, you can trick the computer into doing things that it wasn’t intended to do. This is basically what a buffer overflow attack is: the… Continue reading Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand
Week in Security (August 7 – August 13)
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| A compilation of security news and blog posts from Monday the 7th of August to August 14th. We looked at security certificates and the new bloated Cerber ransomware.
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