Rumours that Elvis’s DNA lives-on in a race of genetically engineered mice have been greatly exaggerated. Back in 2012 there were a flurry of mainstream (and sidestream) news items covering Koby Barhad’s project ‘All that I am‘. [Please note that some links below, from Archive.org are slow to load, but given time, they should] At […]
Tag: DNA
Quasi-ancient tributes to DNA
Here’s quasi-ancient, grainy, degraded video from the 1995 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The theme that year was DNA. Behold tributes to DNA, first from young Kate Eppers; then from Nobel Laureates Rich Roberts, Dudley Herschbach, Joseph Murray, Sheldon Glashow, and William Lipscomb reading a poem by Stanley Eigen (“DNA and Green Eggs and Ham”)… BONUS: […]
C DNA: C from cats, against criminals
“This is the first time cat DNA has been used in a criminal trial in the UK.” That’s the killer quote from a report by Alan Boyle for MSNBC, under the headline: “Elementary, my dear Fluffy: Cat DNA solves another homicide“ The University of Leicester issued a proud press release, giving background on the case. […]
Zowie: “Wow”, the DNA code, interstellar communications
Many strands of thought weave together in this study: “The ‘Wow! signal’ of the terrestrial genetic code,” Vladimir I. shCherbak, Maxim A. Makukov, arXiv:1303.6739v1, March 27, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Kazakh National University and the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, both in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, […]