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The University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center has a very cool animated zooming thingie that graphically illustrates the differences in scale between common objects and microscopic objects like cells and viruses, all the way down to a carbon atom: Cell Size and Scale.
Genetic researchers are making ground-breaking—and possibly life-saving—discoveries about the 1918 flu pandemic. WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia. ... Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University ...
A fascinating discovery by scientists investigating the mammalian genome: Mysterious DNA Found to Survive Eons of Evolution. Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we don’t know about the secrets ...
David Brown has a good piece in the Washington Post’s Science section, on the remnants of extinct viruses discovered in the genome—the results of evolutionary warfare between viral invaders and human genes: In Our Genes, Old Fossils Take On New Roles. Over the past 15 years, scientists have been ...