#genetics
120 materials
More News: The Skull of an Immortal and Various Odds and Ends
The skull of an immortal.
A Blown-Up Sensation + an April Fools' Hoax
Could it really be a tyrant-bird?
Creationism as a form of intellectual doublethink
Troitsky variant. — 2008. — No 7N (821). — p. 6.
Four messages about music and rhythms
Mozart at the molecular level. Listening to Mozart’s melodies led to increased expression of certain genes in the hippocampus of rats and to an increase in the synthesis of synaptic growth factors. Song of the left leg. The “voices” of …
Cloning and its vicinity
And you will be a baobab for a thousand years... The DNA of a deceased person can be implanted into a tree. The weakest link. A person can make a mistake in any situation. Genetic “cuckoos”. On the transplantation of …
Rapid and slow evolution, body remodeling of pythons, and the selfish DNA of infusoria
Evolution in action, or Don't open your mouth to someone else's loaf. The spread of agi in Australia leads to the evolution of the local fauna. Slow immortality. In the thickness of oceanic sediments, bacteria remain alive for millions of …
Genetic miscellany (from the definition of life to the influence of happiness on genetics)
It is hard to be a god. On the development of minimalist artificial life. Genetic expression. Gene chips in gene granules. Shall we train on dogs? Genetic passports. So far for dogs. Is happiness in money? The speed of telomere …
Six news items on human evolution
Step towards the resurrected Neanderthal? On the restoration of the genome of extinct species. An era of change. Why did humans appear on Earth when it was "feverish"? Halfway to the superhuman. On the study of the evolution of modern …
Six old news items about our relationships with other animals
Become the way I want. The toy must be harmless. And it is clear that the best toy is a living one. War with the toad. Humanity is ready to start a genetic war with one of the animal species. …
Five news items about extraterrestrials
And on the eighth day did the Creator create aliens? Some commentators assume that such statements by a high‑ranking priest‑scientist may reflect some data available to the Vatican about extraterrestrial life. Cosmic walks. Thus, one might suppose that representatives of …
About the man of Flores Island
Other people. The most dissimilar representatives of our genus. Homo floresiensis. Tell me, who is your enemy… Knowing which enemies the people we are interested in defended themselves against, we can guess what was going on in their heads. Hobbits …
Two evolutionary articles
Darwin in open access. About the Internet archive of classic texts by Darwin and his contemporaries. In search of the arrow shooter. Genocentric myths and the epigenetic theory of evolution.
Four news about not quite classical genetics
Genetics: between victory and defeat. A powerful source of hereditary variability has been registered, which until now remained underestimated. A kinship view from the shell. The genes that “account” for visual perception in us are also present in the sea …
Four old news items on genetics and phylogeny
See the past. The present is a consequence of, and, if you will, a hostage of the past. Any development is a conflict between memory (the preservation of system properties) and change (the adaptation of that system or its destruction). …
Three old news items: from molecular systematics to nanotechnologies and genetic engineering
Paradoxes of systematics. One of the influential schools of systematics states: if species change cannot be evaluated “objectively”, it should not be taken into account at all and only the order of branching of the evolutionary tree should be reconstructed. …
Three Articles on Interspecific Recombination
Contagious Genes, or the Horizontal Turn: DNA can be acquired not only from parents. Tracing the genealogy of any microorganism, one can see that a "river" of genetically heterogeneous information flows through it. The entire biosphere is reflected in this …
Old News: Evolution of Clonal Rotifers, Super Mice, and Organ Printing
No sex, but no handcuffs either.
Two Old News Items on Traces of Our Ancestors' Diseases in Our Genotypes
Our ancestors suffered so we wouldn't have to.
III. Pisces-01. Fishes: Their Characteristic Features and Archaic Groups
The evolutionary success of the phylum Chordata is associated with the emergence of two extremely successful groups—fishes and tetrapods (which are descendants of fishes).