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Synthetic Life

Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 10:17AM

In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean's biodiversity. And now, in 2010, he's created the first synthetic lifeforms.

Hold the presses!

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 8:27PM

I should retract my thoughts for the Trivers-Willard hypothesis which I referred to in an earlier entry as it seems on closer inspection, the statistics might not be significant.