http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/yeast-can-live-human-genes Yeast and humans have been evolving along separate paths for 1 billion years, but there’s still a strong family resemblance, a new study demonstrates. After inserting more than 400 human genes into yeast cells one at a time, researchers found that almost 50% of the genes functioned and enabled the fungi to survive. Systematic …
[google-translator] Source: Le Monde, 23.02.2015, David Larousserie Au commencement, l’être humain, comme la plupart des vertébrés, est bien peu de chose. Une fine crêpe molle de quelques millimètres de diamètre constituée de milliers de cellules. Cet objet informe deviendra pourtant en quelques heures un objet tridimensionnel qui préfigure sa forme et sa segmentation finales – une tête, un …
by Antoine Danchin La génétique, et désormais la génomique, envahissent la Une de journaux de papier, et jusqu’au journal télévisé lui-même. Mais sait-on réellement ce que cela signifie, ce qu’est la génétique des génomes ? On sait (mais sait-on vraiment ?) ce que sont les gènes. Ce sont ces objets abstraits sous-jacents à la transmission …
and How Synthetic Organisms Could Terraform the Earth One way to combat climate change could be to release synthetic organisms that sequester carbon. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/536211/how-synthetic-organisms-could-terraform-the-earth/ from: Synthetic circuit designs for Earth terraformation Ricard V. Solé ∗,1, 2, 3 Rau ́l Montan ̃ez,1, 2 and Salvador Duran-Nebreda1, 2 1ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (GRIB), Dr Aiguader …
https://youtu.be/IsThU-JWuJ8?t=1h1m43s Court passage avec Miguel Benasayag. [google-translator] Nouvel apartheid, nouvelle “race”: les losers, les winners. et penser qu’on le mérite/responsable est une horreur… “croire que la richesse que je possède, je l’ai mérité, est toujours une saloperie, mais une vraie saloperie! Parce que même la force physique ou mentale qui me permet de travailler, ce n’est pas mon mérite, c’est le pur …
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a long-anticipated policy that will require its grantees to make their peer-reviewed research papers freely available within 12 months of publication in a journal. http://news.sciencemag.org/policy/2015/03/nsf-unveils-plan-make-scientific-papers-free because you know what…Steal This Research Paper! (You Already Paid for It.)
Cyber is number one and read this: Most of the public discussion regarding cyber threats has focused on the confidentiality and availability of information […] we might also see more cyber operations that will change or manipulate electronic information in order to compromise its integrity (i.e. accuracy and reliability) instead of deleting it or disrupting …
Biologists have concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundworms. The researchers note that even where we might expect evolution to be random, it is not. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071119123929.htm Original study: Kiontke, K., Barrière, A., Kolotuev, I., Podbilewicz, B., Sommer, R., Fitch, D. H. A., …
New article: Engineering the Perfect Baby: Scientists are developing ways to edit the DNA of tomorrow’s children. Should they stop before it’s too late? By Antonio Regalado on March 5, 2015 http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/535661/engineering-the-perfect-baby/ …which reminds me I don’t say this enough (maybe?) :: We need more people trained in Bioethics, BIOETHICS, BiOeThIcS, bioethics, bIoEtHiCs, B.I.O.E.T.H.I.C.S. clear enough? So, here …
http://blogs.rue89.nouvelobs.com/deja-vu/2015/02/26/avec-la-zee-ville-de-facebook-zuckerberg-reinvente-les-corons-234289 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2963782/Welcome-Facebook-City-Mark-Zuckerberg-plans-waterside-development-10-000-staff-near-firm-s-San-Francisco-HQ.html Check out this previous post: https://ladam.info/2013/09/12/godin-utopie-familistere-and-architecture/#respond