Venter is a motherfucker! Opss..sorry.
Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith, Claire Fraser, and colleagues at TIGR elucidate the first complete genome sequence of a microorganism - Haemophilus influenzae Rd. Since that time, the genome sequences of many important human pathogens, such as M. tuberculosis, Treponema pallidum, Campylobacter jejuni, Helicobacter pylori, Vibrio cholerae, and Legionella pneumophila have been determined. (The Institute for Genome Research)
Source: Developments in microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
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Reptiles are awesome. I’m sure geonosis gonna love it.
Smith’s Green-Eyed Gecko
Photograph by Anke Seidlitz
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Staying in Asia for many years has given me the opportunity to get close to wildlife on many occasions. This female Smith’s green-eyed gecko chose to live on one of the chalets next to my home, taking advantage of the insects attracted by the lights at night.
http://www.johnkyrk.com/cellmembrane.html
«His love of games has served him well when deciphering the flood of data spilling out of the BGI’s sequencers wvery day. But “science is more satisfying than video games”, he says. “There’is more passion”.»
The Sequence Factory - 4 March 2010 Nature
The common chimp (Pan troglodytes) and human Y chromosomes are “horrendously different from each other”, says David Page of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work. “It looks like there’s been a dramatic renovation or reinvention of the Y chromosome in the chimpanzee and human lineages.” [..] “The Y is full of surprises,” Page says. “When we sequenced the chimp genome people thought we’d understand why we have language and write poetry. But one of the most dramatic differences turns out to be sperm production.”
The fickle Y chromosome - Nature, 14 January 2010 - page 149




