DNA Barcoding of Nutritional Supplements
…rather than later.” In a breakthrough application of DNA barcoding, reported 3 February in the NY Times, “New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers.” New York’s lead owes…
…rather than later.” In a breakthrough application of DNA barcoding, reported 3 February in the NY Times, “New York Attorney General Targets Supplements at Major Retailers.” New York’s lead owes…
In 1982 Jesse translated from Italian into English about 200 pages from the unpublished diaries of Fey von Hassell, who had grown up in Rome in the 1930s as daughter…
The New York Times mentions the Sloan Foundation’s Limits to Knowledge program and quotes Jesse….
On 26 April the New York Times ran a profile by Nicholas Wade about the span of Jesse’s career, “Commodore of a Global DNA Census. 
…genes, there are 2,629 COI sequences from 1,071 species (2.6% world) and 2,268 12S/16S sequences from 1,041 species (2.6% world). Thus it appears that only about 1/40th of world’s spiders…
…programs. (The 100 produce about 90 percent of Ph.D.’s.) From 1960 to now, major league baseball added more franchises, too, from 16 to 28. The New York Yankees could not…
…the critics did not understand the difficulties of working with the remaining unpublished documents that are mostly a collection of fragile fragments of parchment.” New York Times September 5, 1991…
…Library), Linnaeus listed 564 species collected from all over the world. In 1935, Ernst Mayr estimated 8,500 world birds, and counted more precisely in 1946, arriving at a total of…
IT World and Boingboing run stories about progress of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Encyclopedia of Life: Better than Wikipedia! What leeches and ligers can teach you about evolution…