Life adapts — fish evolved from salt to fresh water in just fifty years
In 1964 an earthquake made some parts of the Pacific into ponds on a few islands. Fifty years later and the fish in those ponds are now freshwater fish. Apparently the genes for dealing with that sort...
View ArticleCorals use epigenetic tricks to adapt to warmer and “more acidic” water
… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all,...
View ArticleScientist create, then cure, baldness, wrinkles and some aging in mice
Here’s a tantalizing bit of gene research. Scientists were able to switch off a central gene in the nucleus of a mouse cell. That in turn meant the mouse’s mitochondria started failing (I’m going to be...
View ArticleAdapting to climate change “it’s in our genes”— Another reason to ignore the...
Two different models predict two totally different futures. On the left, catastrophic extinction. On the right, happy bats. Click to enlarge Yesterday a UN supercommittee of 145 scientists from 50...
View ArticleEvidence grows that Coronavirus was man-made: the bat virus it “evolved” from...
The claims that the current pandemic Coronavirus is natural all rely on it being 96% closely related to a natural bat virus known as the RaTG13 virus. But new analysis suggests this “natural” virus...
View ArticleReinfection and T cell immunity — does the common cold give us protection...
The first case of a definitive reinfection was reported today Before we look at whether a cold gives us protection let’s point out we don’t know how well a SARS 2 infection gives us protection. A 33...
View ArticleDr. Li-Meng Yan claims The virus is man-made and spread to make damage
Dr Li-Meng Yan worked in the WHO Coronavirus Reference Lab in Hong Kong. She has just published a detailed paper claiming that the SARS-2 coronavirus was artificially made in a laboratory and appeared...
View ArticleParalyzed mice walk again after just a few weeks
We all could use some good news, and this is quite extraordinary. “Using gene therapy, a research team has succeeded in getting mice to walk again after a complete cross-sectional injury. The nerve...
View ArticleChina took Manufacturing, then Tech and the West gave them away. Now it’s...
China has become the Wild West of bio-research … The ZMan spots a repeat cycle of knowledge-hauls as China siphons off Western intellectual property, often with the help of the West. First China...
View ArticleA cloud of Covid variants circles the globe
Mutations of SARS2 are roaming. Currently there are 19 million active (known) cases of Covid. Due to copying errors, mistakes are accumulating in the genes of the virus. It’s a relentless process of...
View ArticleTen years ago China was worried about race based genetic bioweapons — Hello...
Image by AngMoKio For anyone trained in genetics the news that China warned of the potential for race based genetic bioweapons in 2011 is just stating what any good SciFi writer has known for years....
View ArticleBizarre: Early samples from Wuhan patients also have bits of Influenza,...
China sure has some explaining to do. Samples of lung fluid were taken from five of the earliest people to get Covid. One team of researchers has just fished through the genetic entrails and discovered...
View ArticleNew Olympic Rules means medals for men and people-who-used-to-be-men
Follow the science, eh? Bad news for athletes born as baby girls – unless they start testosterone therapy straight away, it’s hard to see how they can win against babies with 18 years of DIY hormone...
View ArticleBlockbuster: Fingerprint genetic evidence strongly suggests Covid was...
By Jo Nova Why-O-Why has this taken so long? Finally we have a preprint paper assessing SARS2 as if it might have been an engineered product from a laboratory. We now know it was very likely a lab...
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