Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Genetic art and such-like

Some companies like Yonder biology can do a painting of your genes.

Another company called genetic-photos can put your dna on a t-shirt etc.

Sunday, 24 October 2010

Genes linked to the kidneys(not kidney disease)

A gene called FOXL1 has been linked to water retention in the kidneys.
A mutation of this gene was found in 85% of  20 Yoruba in some research done, this version of the gene is believed to date back to the spread of the sahara 10-20,00 years ago.
Search Amazon.com for Yoruba

Friday, 22 October 2010

Paris japonica genome sequenced

Geneticists have sequenced the genome of the rare flower paris japonica which has the biggest genome so far sequenced, there are 149 billion base pairs, the genome is 50 times  the size of the human genome.

Thursday, 16 September 2010

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

apple genetics

The golden delicious apple genom has about 57,000 nuclear genes. Researchers have found out that the domesticated apple's closest wild relative is malus sieversii
Search Amazon.com for golden delicious apple

Friday, 3 September 2010

Chinese summer wheat genome sequenced

The chinese spring wheat genome is five times as large as the human genome.
It is hoped that it will help into research  in developing new types of wheat with higher yields,are drought resistant and withstand climate change.
Search Amazon.com for spring wheat
Search Amazon.com for drought resistant
Search Amazon.com for higher yields