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Flowering plants transformed into 'hopeful monsters' in 9 dire bursts across evolutionary time, study finds
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Flowering plants transformed into 'hopeful monsters' in 9 dire bursts across evolutionary time, study finds

In hard times, like when the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit Earth, some plants transformed into "hopeful monsters" to save themselves. Now, a new paper shows that these monsters are more common than we thought.

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The way a cell fails to divide after copying its DNA can determine its fate
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The way a cell fails to divide after copying its DNA can determine its fate

phys.org·Hokkaido University·about 1 month ago
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Cell division is one of the most fundamental and complex processes underpinning life. In human cells, thousands of molecules coordinate with one another in highly precise steps, all within a fraction of a second. But things don't always go as planned.

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Craig Venter, who booted up the first synthetic cell, dies at 79
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Craig Venter, who booted up the first synthetic cell, dies at 79

Boing Boing·Ellsworth Toohey·about 1 month ago
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In 2010, Craig Venter and his colleagues took a bacterial genome they had designed on a computer, assembled it from chemical building blocks, transplanted it into an empty cell, and…

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A Synthetic Biology Pioneer Has Left Us: Remembering J. Craig Venter (1946-2026).

Reddit r/biology·u/coinfanking·about 1 month ago
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Craig didn't just study life. He decoded it, synthesized it, and dared to ask what it meant to create it from scratch. At a time when sequencing a single genome took years and billions of dollars, he built a private company, assembled a supercomputer, and…

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Biohacker claims to have sequenced their own genome at the kitchen table with M3 Ultra Mac Studio, Claude, and a $3,200 sequencer — DIY project requires 100GB of data storage per run, oodles of RAM
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Biohacker claims to have sequenced their own genome at the kitchen table with M3 Ultra Mac Studio, Claude, and a $3,200 sequencer — DIY project requires 100GB of data storage per run, oodles of RAM

From Latest from Tom's Hardware: Biohacker claims to have sequenced their own genome at the kitchen table with M3 Ultra Mac Studio, Claude, and a $3,200 sequencer — DIY project requires 100GB of data storage per run, oodles of RAM

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