…Taking advantage of this feature, the researchers designed primers to amplify one of the variable domains, the P6 loop. Binding sites for both the trnL primers, which amplify the entire…
We have posted three new papers: Reasons to Worry about the Human Environment Jesse H. Ausubel Cosmos (Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington, DC) 8:1-12, 1998. International Conflicts over…
…Williams, C.G., Landscapes, Genomics and Transgenic Forests, pp. 13-29, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2006. Would editing a few bytes of the genetic message for a tree to fit human desires do harm…
…base pairs (twice the size of the human genome), with 85% of the assembled and 57% of the unassembled data unique at a 98% identity cutoff. The extreme diversity prevented…
…in Southeast Asia. Geographic variation in mitochondrial DNA of commensal rats provides a window into patterns of human dispersal and migration, but studies are complicated by the presence of multiple…
…unburden faculty, more in the humanities and social sciences, in undergraduate teaching and evaluation. Expanding graduate enrollments and postdocs costs less than hiring new faculty. Moreover, faculty-especially young faculty-competing for…
…essential genetic “index” for locating species pages in the Encylopedia of Life. The best-trained human mind can identify a few thousand species. Comprehensive DNA barcode libraries and inexpensive, portable sequence…
…number of scientific and technological discoveries, 1400- 1900. Source of data: L. Darmstaedter, 1908. Fear that humanity was running out of inventions partly motivated Darmstaedter’s history. Scientists and engineers themselves…
…evolved from a common biological origin over several billion years. The study follows mainstream views of human evolution. We do not propose there was a single “Adam” or “Eve”. We…
…imagine it is more likely a first step towards DIY biologists sequencing everything in sight, helping monitor the health of the environment, including tracking spread of human and animal diseases….