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by AlexR — 7 years ago

Genetic de-extinction projects will bring back Mammoths

The sub-discipline of species de-extinction is an odd and innovative area of cutting edge genetic editing, manipulation and retrieval few people might know about. De-extinction of Mammoths at the service of the future’s past Until more recently... Read more →

by AlexR — 8 years ago

Are digital virus, biological in nature?

A biological perspective on the cryptic malicious code. When I was 10 years old (believe it or not!) I remember wondering why my PC (Personal Computer) wasn’t subject to any bacterial infection as I actually thought that computers were... Read more →

by AlexR — 8 years ago

Selected news about mitochondria

From 2014-2016 I collected a series of articles on molecular biology. Since I have gathered enough source material please find some of the most interesting ones I have found. As this subject might be too specific for the layman, the selected... Read more →

by AlexR — 9 years ago

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Famed book on sociobiology publish in the late 1970’s. Built upon the legacy of Hamilton and Williams’ insights, Dawkins critically and commercially successful work on a DNA-centric view of behaviour catapulted him to prominence. Intellectual... Read more →

by AlexR — 10 years ago

BR/ “Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life” by J. Craig Venter

Some years ago I stumbled upon on an article discussing about “Synthetic Biology” and remembering not paying too much attention to it seemed to me as Synthetic biology was more of an area touching at science-fiction than actually Science. I... Read more →

by AlexR — 10 years ago

NR/ « News Review » of Cellular biology

“kinesin, as example of an cytoskeletal protein” NR/ « News Review » of different discoveries which occurred from June 2014 to September 2014 with an extra borderline weird discovery from the archives. As of the latest we learn... Read more →

by AlexR — 10 years ago

Genetics and epigenetics an update

The magazine « Pour la Science » published a whole issue on areas involved in molecular biology. Named “L’hérédité sans gènes“ published last year. Many subjects were treated and a lot was written on current research on the fields... Read more →

by AlexR — 10 years ago

C/ « Gene Drives » And CRISPR Could Revolutionize Ecosystem Managment

An Interesting « Guest Blog » post appeared this July on http://www.scientificamerican.com about « Gene Drives » and CRISPR by George Church. George Church is a famous Professor of Genetics at Harvard and apparently a pioneer in personal... Read more →

by AlexR — 11 years ago

C/ The Clock-watcher

Epigenetics is clearly one of the « hottest » fields in molecular biology at the moment alongside iRNA. It is surprising how far we have come since the famous “human genome project” from the late 1990’s. For those aren’t aware the... Read more →

by AlexR — 11 years ago

C/ “New superbugs could make UTIs fatal, not just uncomfortable”

Slang : Superbugs = antibiotic resistant microorganism UTIs = Urinary tract infections Antibiotics (anti “against”; bios “life) as some would know are tools that are used by medics, consumers, animals on a daily basis around the... Read more →