200,000-year-old patch of Seagrass Is the world’s oldest living organism
Posted by admin in Science on 09. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
A patch of Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass native to the Mediterranean, has just gotten its DNA sequenced and its age determined–and as it turns out, some parts of this particular patch are up to 200,000 years old. That easily destroys the previous world record of the oldest living organism, a Tasmanian plant believed [...]
Salmon DNA used in data storage device
Posted by admin in Science on 08. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
Salmon … they’re good to eat, provide a livelihood for fishermen, are an important part of their ecosystem, and now it seems that they can store data. More specifically, their DNA can. Scientists from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have created a "write-once-read-many-times" (WORM) memory device, [...]
Caltech creates first artificial neural network from DNA
Posted by admin in Science on 25. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
One of the things that our brains excel at is the ability to recognize what things are, even when presented with an incomplete set of data. If we know only that an animal is sold in pet stores and stuffs food in its cheeks, for instance, we can be pretty certain that the animal in [...]
New technology developed for the large-scale editing of DNA
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 15. Jul, 2011 | 0 Comments
While scientists have long had the ability to edit individual genes, it is a slow, expensive and hard to use process. Now researchers at Harvard and MIT have developed technologies, which they liken to the genetic equivalent of the find-and-replace function of a word processing program, that allow them to make large-scale edits to a [...]
Ancient body clock discovered that helps to keep all living things on time
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 06. Feb, 2011 | 0 Comments
Scientists have identified the mechanism responsible for driving the internal clock of almost all living organisms A group of Cambridge scientists have successfully identified the mechanism that drives our internal 24-hour clock, or circadian rhythm. It occurs not only in human cells, but has also been found in other life forms such as algae, and [...]
