Genome Hacking Could Reverse-Engineer Extinct Woolly Mammoth (6)
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It might not make sense to pull woolly mammoths from the Ice Age into an age of global warming, but resurrecting that lost species just became a bit less far-fetched. Using hair from 20,000-year-old specimens preserved in Siberian tundra, an international team of scientists finished a draft genome sequence of Mammuthus primigenius. About one-fifth of the genome remains unidentified, but that should take just a few more years and scans. Once complete, it could be ...
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An Interview with Evan Prodromou, the Developer Behind the Open Source Twitter Clone (1)
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Vadlo, the beta biomedical search engine wants to scale up! (1)
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forwarded, nonpersonal mail from Maya Kennard (you might get that email too): Resource link/Story suggestion for your website:Title: VADLO - Biomedical Search Engine Description: Vadlo is a search engine for the biology/biomedical scientists, educators, clinicians and reference librarians. References Also check the Daily cartoons! The idea is that we feed them with searches and links and they will grow big enough to give us more and more relevant searches and links. Magic concept: scalability, check ...
To be or not to be… (1)
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... a designer. Nu, nu e dilema mea personală, ci numele unui nou eveniment despre design care se-ntâmplă în Timișoara vinerea asta. jobber susține comunitățile locale de designeri! ... in London. OK, to be! Sunt în Londra de azi dimineață, stau până miercuri, iar planul e să work & play :).
The Nanotech Antidote to Food Poisoning (2)
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The day after an awesome tailgate party, you feel deathly ill. Bacterial toxins are coursing through your veins, slipping into red blood cells, and tearing them to shreds from the inside. As the dead erythrocytes pile up, your kidneys start to fail. Maybe the burgers were a bit too rare. Perhaps they contained E. Coli O157:H7, which is infamous for causing widespread outbreaks. If this happened tomorrow, your prognosis might not be good. But an ...
Ticketmaster Drops Convenience Fee From Eagles Tickets (1)
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Ticketmaster will eliminate the convenience fees on Eagles tickets for the band’s upcoming January 2009 shows. The move signifies “a collaborative effort by both the Eagles and Ticketmaster to provide the best consumer value and streamline the ticket buying process.” “The Eagles have long been committed to giving their loyal fans the best concert going experience,” says the band’s long-time manager and new Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff. “The Eagles use of ‘all-in ticketing’ is the ...
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Language alert: About fucking time. I'll make a separate trip (and spend whatever gas money required) to go to the box office and undercut Ticketmaster's ridiculous fee structure.
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