biodiversité

Essayer d’obtenir un seul visage en faisant du morphing est plutôt déprimant.

Je suis pour la diversité de la première ligne.

The Presurfer

blogger’s phenotypic traits

Pour les 12 autres cliquez sur la 13ème.
Et pensez à ne pas mettre du Cola dans votre frigo

blogo-links

NANOTECHNOLOGIES : UN NOUVEAU DÉBAT ANNULÉ HIER À LYON, chez Sylvestre Huet. Mon commentaire semble perdu dans le cyberspace, autant le noter ici :

On peut y lire ceci : «Un des slogans entendus résume la position de PMO : «Le débat on s’en fout, on ne veut pas de nanos du tout.» C’est un point de vue légitime, mais son argumentaire mérite un examen critique.

Un point de vue légitime de refuser a priori le débat ? Mon cul ! Ca pue la dictature du petit con.

Leaf-Cutters Get Their Fix (nitrogen fix, that is), by Elio at Small Things Considered:

Leaf cutting ants left their hunting-gathering mode of life and became farmers long before humans did. In the process, they have acquired some pretty amazing uses for symbiotic relationships. They sure know how to farm sustainably!

Oh, that dangerous squalene!:

The Canadian vaccine contains 3.8 micrograms of viral protein (HA) and 5 micrograms of preservative solution mixed with 12 milligrams of Vitamin E, 11 milligrams of squalene, and 5 milligrams of Polysorbate 80, whatever that is.

The article quoted above notes that a person secretes 125 – 475 milligrams of squalene per day from their skin.

Ah ?!

Deconstructing Social Darwinism, piqué à The dispersal od Darwin, juste pour l’illustration

Over at The Primate Diaries, Eric Michael Johnson (anthropologist turned historian of science) has a three four-part post on social Darwinism. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3, and Part 4.

Wheel of stars, piqué à Samia Hurst (Bio-Ethique)

KAP1 controls endogenous retroviruses in embryonic stem cells

KAP1 controls endogenous retroviruses in embryonic stem cells

Rowe HM, Jakobsson J, Mesnard D, Rougemont J, Reynard S, Aktas T, Maillard PV, Layard-Liesching H, Verp S, Marquis J, Spitz F, Constam DB, Trono D

Nature 463, 237-240 (14 January 2010) | doi: 10.1038/nature08674

thanator

Thanator, droit sorti de l’imagination d’un des artistes qui ont contribué à Avatar. Devait avoir des préjugés celui-ci

les artistes n’ont pas de préjugé, ils voient ce qu’ils voient, et extrapolent les tendances spontanément.

Deep Phylogeny−−How a Tree Can Help Characterize Early Life on Earth

Deep Phylogeny−−How a Tree Can Help Characterize Early Life on Earth
Eric A. Gaucher, James T. Kratzer and Ryan N. Randall
Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2010, doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a002238

Regulation of Organ Growth by Morphogen Gradients

Regulation of Organ Growth by Morphogen Gradients

Gerald Schwank and Konrad Basler

Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol 2010 doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a001669

Making Cellular Memories

Making Cellular Memories

Devin R. Burrill and Pamela A. Silver

Cell, Volume 140, Issue 1, 13-18, 8 January 2010 doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.12.034 Free Access

Lack of evolvability in self-sustaining autocatalytic networks constraints metabolism-first scenarios for the origin of life<

Lack of evolvability in self-sustaining autocatalytic networks constraints metabolism-first scenarios for the origin of life

Vera Vasas, Eörs Szathmáry, and Mauro Santos

Published online before print January 4, 2010, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0912628107

VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization