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Study: Genetic info swapped between different species

Study: Genetic info swapped between different speciesGenetic info swapThis article fails to explain how the "genetic swap info" would get into the germ line. A genetic swap into any other cells would be a genetic dead end.. it may confer a temporary advantage or disadvantage but it would die out...

Tags: stem-cell, species, organism

Discussion threads 2007-01-29

World's next fuel source could be designer organisms

World's next fuel source could be designer organismsWhoa![a new start-up called Synthetic Genomics, which plans to create new types of organisms that, ideally, would produce hydrogen, secrete nonpolluting heating oil or be able to break down greenhouse gases. The initial focus will be on creating "biofactories" for hydrogen and ethanol,]Uh,...

Tags: hydrogen, organism, designer organism, theory

Discussion threads 2005-11-07

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Monitoring our immune system

You might be surprised to learn that there are no clinical tools to track the human immune system today. This might change soon. UCLA researchers have developed a new PET scanning probe that will allow monitoring of our immune system. The scientists have used one of the most commonly used...

Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Imaging, Monitoring, Probe, Cell, PET, FAC, 18F, Positron Emission Tomography, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

From fungus to fuel

An international team of researchers led by some U.S. Department of Energy's research labs has decoded the genetic sequence of a fungus named Tricoderma reesei. The team has found how this organism breaks down plant fibers into simple sugars and how to use this fungus to produce fuel. 'The finding...

Tags: Team, Biofuel, Researcher, T., Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing

Speaking from the stage in China's Great Hall of the People last Thursday evening, World Wide Web inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared some of his hopes for the Web with his audience of WWW2008 delegates, impeccably polite and ever-helpful conference volunteers and...

Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-29

More and more the earth has less and less

Natural features that have existed for millenia are disappearing. There have warming and cooling trends in the past, but today technology allows us to "see" what's happening. A mixture of satellite imagery, detailed on-site observation and computerized models allow human today to watch and chart what's happening as...

Tags: Ice, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-19

3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolution

3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolutionLife imitates artFantastic. The virus looks like a seductive Borg mothership.CheersRE: 3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolutionAmazing photography, I would never have imagined that much detail on an organism that small.

Tags: Cyberthreats, virus, 3D

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

3-D images of a virus at half-nanometer resolution

U.S. researchers have used a new technique named cryo-EM (short for 'Electron cryomicroscopy) to capture images of a virus at a resolution of 4.5 angstroms -- less than half of a nanometer. As said the lead researcher, 'This is the highest resolution ever achieved for a living organism of this...

Tags: Technique, 3D, Microscope, Electron, Imaging, Image, Virus, Imaging Technique, Cryo-EM, Productivity, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Recreating 3.5 billion year-old genes

A U.S. team of scientists wanted to determine what was the Earth's temperature several billions years ago. But because most of the team was composed of biologists, the researchers took an unusual approach. Instead of analyzing rock formations or measuring isotopes in fossils, they've 'resurrected' a variety of genes and...

Tags: Earth, Protein, Environment, Gene, Opposite, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-02-08

SilkWood (exe)

SilkWood is a casual paced game based on a digital organism called The Elders. The Ambassador of the Elders, Elder No.6 has been assigned to earth to secure a home for his people. To help No.6 you must set his daily schedule. Set time for him to work, eat, sleep,...

Tags: SilkWood, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-02-07

Life in extreme environments

U.S. biologists have developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a bacteria named Halobacterium salinarum, which can live in extremely salty environments, and that can survive to radiation which would be deadly to most other organisms. Their model shows how these bacteria adapt themselves in response to their environment....

Tags: Genome, Environment, Gene, Bacteria, Cell, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-30

Conversations between bacteria

Did you know that bacteria 'talked' with each other by using small molecules to coordinate their behavior and decide when it's a good time to infect you? A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how UK researchers are working toward a Rosetta stone for microbes' secret language (scroll...

Tags: Bacteria, Molecule, Biotechnology, Web Site Development, Productivity, Security, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-13

A surprise in nature's operating system

A surprise in nature's operating systemGenetic manipulation"Can we encode the HIV virus into the human genome, rendering it harmless, and should we?"I know it's "too geeky" for some, but in the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series they had a character, Dr. Bashir, who had been born with abnormally low...

Tags: Biotechnology, RNA, DNA, antibiotic, bacteria, genetic manipulation, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOA

Can this fish grow legs? What biology can teach us about SOAAppalling deficiency in powers of observationRegardless of the theory du jour, biological evolution is a system of advancement. Compare single cell organism with human body, and culture.Theory "du jour" is based on what has been observedIf you want to...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), theory, biology, SOA

Discussion threads 2007-11-28

A cancer-resistant mouse?

University of Kentucky researchers have created a cancer-resistant mouse by introducing a tumor-suppressor gene called 'Par-4' into an egg. The 'Par-4' gene, discovered in 1993, kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. It was originally found in the prostate, but this gene also can lead to the death of a...

Tags: Mouse, Gene, Par-4, Cancer Cell, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-11-27

Markets need good information

Markets need good informationI agreeI should note, however, that market participants, particularly vendors, rarely have as much appreciation for the free market as theorists do. More often, it is accepted as an acceptable alternative to having the market rigged against them. A market rigged in one's own favor...

Tags: Vertical industries, toilet seat, Microsoft Corp., government

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Forget global warming, stop MRSA terrorism and get rich

File this one under Law of Unintended Consequences. Everything you do will have some environmental effect you cannot forsee. Decades of antibiotic use and we now have some killer bacteria that are anti-antibiotic. That terrorizes me pretty well. They say the bacteria especialy like us...

Tags: Infection, Terrorism, Bacteria, Global Warming, MRSA, Security, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-16

Pipes, is that the answer to save life as we know it?

There's a proposal being put forth to stop the earth from over-heating. It comes from James Lovelock and Chris Rapley, two British scientists. It's just appeared as a letter to Nature. And I'm not the first blogger to take note. The proposal...

Tags: Earth, Proposal, Blogging, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-26

Filming nanotubes inside living animals

A team of researchers at Rice University has filmed carbon nanotubes inside living animals. They've used a custom-built microscope and a technique called near-infrared fluorescent imaging to detect DNA-sized nanotubes inside living fruit flies. But more importantly, they've compared a group of fruit fly larvae fed with a yeast paste...

Tags: Nanotube, Larva, Carbon Nanotube, Fruit Fly, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-25