EL is a dinosaur

Bacteria are so complicated.

scienceisbeauty:

Circular genome map of Rickettsia typhi

Source

freshphotons:

Microarrays, sometimes called gene chips, provide snapshots of all the genes that are active in a cell at a particular time. Via.

freshphotons:

billydalto:

Part of the Sumedicina project, this is a visualization of a viral DNA sequence. It’s a fictional virus that happens to share its name with an isolate of the Taura syndrome virus, also called 2KMX. TSV has a single-stranded RNA genome, and infects a number of species including the whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei, which is actually a closet prawn.

Image via Flowing Data and created by Kim Asendorf.

freshphotons:

Crick And Watson (1953) by Antony Barrington Brown.

«C’è la forte tentazione di chiedersi se questa collana di zucchero attorcigliato, contenente perle fatte di basi puriniche e pirimidiniche, non sia in realtà Dio. »
-James Watson-

freshphotons:

Via.

“La diploidia ci ha salvati dall’estinzione” - C. C.

I believe only in this christmas tree

freshphotons:

(via polyharmonics)

“C’è la forte tentazione di chiedersi se questa collana di zucchero attorcigliato, contenente perle fatte di basi puriniche e pirimidiniche, non sia in realtà Dio.”

- James Watson