Next Year, Give Your Valentine Custom-Engineered Flowers With Bespoke Scents
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 14. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
A root-beer bouquet, anyone? Sweet Smelling Flowers David Clark, a researcher at the University of Florida, specializes in engineering aromas for flowers and other plants. University of Florida Future guys and gals looking for a sweet-smelling bouquet for Valentine’s Day might consider the root-beer-scented variety. Or they could opt for a fouler odor, if [...]
First Early Human Genome Sequenced
Posted by admin in Science on 11. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
Scientists have sequenced the genome of an ancient human for the first time. An international team extracted DNA from 4,000-year-old hair found in Greenland’s permafrost. They were able to sequence an impressive 79 percent of the genetic material and shared a thing or two about this ancient Homo sapiens in this week’s issue of the [...]
