Palestine playtime


A couple from Leni R.

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Weird Science :
Vitamin D expert loses post
Sunlight may be good for you (or not)
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Craig Venter finds a million genes in the ocean
.... a pilot study to shotgun clone and sequence microbial genomes
filtered from seawater in the Sargasso Sea (Science March 4, 2004).
..1.2 million new genes were identified, revealing a level of microbial
diversity in seawater..700 of those were new rhodopsin-like photoreceptors.
..there were ..180,000 genes and proteins in Swiss-Prot ..Venter told
The Scientist..In one paper, we're adding 1.2 or 1.3 million [genes]..
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The 1997 discovery of Homo sapiens idaltu, or simply the Herto people
with their significant cranial capacity, large faces and teeth, adds
substantial weight to the theory that Africa was the only home to
intermediaries between nonmodern and modern humans. "The Herto fossils
are the earliest, well-dated H. sapiens of modern aspect,"

Sarah Tishkoff, assistant professor of biology at the University of Maryland in College Park,
looked at mitochondrial DNA variants among 600 living East Africans,4 extrapolating 170,000 years ago
for the start of the modern human lineage. This is strikingly similar to the radiometric date of
156,000 years ago for H. sapiens idaltu

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..in the drainage of an abandoned California mine. Using whole-genome shotgun sequencing,
Jillian Banfield .. reconstructed the genomes of microbes found in a pink slick
that thrives in this extremely acidic environment...the first to reconstruct a
microbial community at the genome level and to examine community-essential functions across genomes.
..they could readily identify two complete genomes and three partial genomes. "..Nature March 4, 2004