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Bio News of the Week 3 #28

Closed tabinks closed 8 years ago

tabinks commented 8 years ago

Craig Venter Will Teleport Your DNA

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a9681/craig-venter-will-teleport-your-dna-16048043/

This guy is on a roll...

tabinks commented 8 years ago

23andMe Wins A Second Life: New Business Plan Scores $115 Million From Investors

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/10/14/23andme-prepares-a-comeback-raising-115-million-at-a-1-1-billion-valuation/

bd4 commented 8 years ago

I googled for "crystalline dna", because I didn't think of DNA as being a crystal so I didn't understand how X-ray crystallography could be used to determine it's structure. This gem (circa 2011) is the first google result:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_cambio14.htm

From the article: "We are being changed physically from carbon-based beings with 2 strands of DNA into crystalline beings with 1,024 strands of DNA (eventually), because only crystalline substances can exist on higher dimensional levels."

Also, the drop shadow title text is amazing.

bjmc commented 8 years ago

There’s a Mystery Machine That Sculpts the Human Genome

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/theres-a-mystery-machine-that-sculpts-the-human-genome/411199/