Eye on DNA Headlines for 9 August 2007

by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted August 9, 2007 in DNA Fun, Eye on DNA Headlines

• Pat Washburn at The Health Wisdom Blog hosts the latest issue of Medicine 2.0.
• My post on medical tourism for preimplantation genetic diagnosis has been syndicated by MedTripInfo.
• Thanks to ifantabulous for adding Eye on DNA to her blogroll.
• Peggy at Biology in Science Fiction has a great review of creative biotechnology.
• John Hawks points to DNA rainbow which created graphics for all the human chromosomes by assigning a color to each of the A, C, G, T bases. They also present tons of other information on genetics, including a species comparison.

  Although scientists know already most of the sequence of the human DNA, the information the genetic code helds is not fully understood. Therefore we want to introduce a new idea to display and maybe better understand the code. Structures and repeating bases can be recognized faster and by resizing an image with an appropriate algorithm it is possible to get a quick overview of different sections in the chromosome.

• Jonathan Eisen sent me this story from The Onion – DNA Evidence Frees Man From Zoo. If they thought this guy was a giraffe, then I say it’s time we tested the DNA of supermodels!

Tags: genetics, genes, dna, dna rainbow, science

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Comment by David Bradley

2007-08-09 10:38:31

I spent the best part of 5 minutes squinting crossing and de-crossing my eyes to try and make that stereogram work, eventually it clicked it’s Ventner’s face in 3D isn’t it, is it?

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Comment by Hsien

2007-08-09 10:47:41

You’re such an idolator it isn’t even funny…. HahAHha

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Comment by Lil

2007-08-10 17:56:35

it’s a pleasure to add that on my blogroll, because it now means i don’t have to rely on my bookmarks (which is not portable whenever i travel)…

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Comment by Hsien

2007-08-10 18:02:06

Hi Lil! For portable bookmarks, have you ever tried using http://del.icio.us?

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Comment by Hsien

2007-08-10 18:03:00

Although I’m not saying you should use del.icio.us instead of having me in your blogroll!!

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Comment by Lil

2007-08-12 19:07:29

i have indeed, but i am simply not a big fan for signing up for whole lot of stuff, so blogroll is the simplest way that i could think of… a friend recently pointed out portable bookmarking via google account too!

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