DailyDirt: Biotech On Bugs
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Bio-engineering is making some serious progress. It seems like the more we learn about biology, the more we can use biology to help solve all kinds of problems that you wouldn’t necessarily think would be related to biology. Here are just a few cool examples of biology research that sound like they could serve mankind (and hopefully not in the “cookbook” sense).
- Engineered algae could help clean up radioactive waste. These little organisms might significantly reduce the amount of nuclear waste just by separating lots of harmless calcium from radioactive strontium. [url]
- One small step for man, one giant leap for yeast: multicellularity! Countdown until somebody tries to breed monkeys in a centrifuge… [url]
- Entomologists are looking at insect genes to try to find potential pesticides that bugs are genetically susceptible to. This doesn’t sound like the beginning of a scary bio-virus horror flick at all. [url]
- To discover more biotech stuff, check out what’s roaming around in the StumbleUpon jungle. [url]
By the way, StumbleUpon can recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.
Filed Under: algae, biology, entomologists, evolution, pesticides, yeast
Comments on “DailyDirt: Biotech On Bugs”
Yeast Genes
Well, umm, clearly God just *buried* those multi-cellularity-supporting genes in the yeast genome, in order to, uhh, tests our faith… yeah, that’s the ticket.
Re: Yeast Genes
The man-made evolution of yeast… is not quite intelligent design. 😛
New Scientist's evil bait-and-switch links
Why the hell does this link:
One small step for man, one giant leap for yeast: multicellularity!
work but this link on their own website:
throws up some sort of paywall login prompt instead of the promised article? Not only bait-and-switch links but inconsistent, too!
Please don’t link to this site anymore if it continues this sort of behavior. If they dislike our traffic that much that they’ll throw up gratuitous obstacles to anyone that browses around after landing there, then let’s not refer them any more.
New Scientist's evil bait-and-switch links
Someone delete the previous comment. Something in this blasted web form screwed it up.
REPOST, hopefully this time it will work the way it should have the first time:
Why the hell does this link:
One small step for man, one giant leap for yeast: multicellularity!
work but this link on their own website:
Not so simple: Gulping bugs with the nuclear option
throws up some sort of paywall login prompt instead of the promised article? Not only bait-and-switch links but inconsistent, too!
Please don’t link to this site anymore if it continues this sort of behavior. If they dislike our traffic that much that they’ll throw up gratuitous obstacles to anyone that browses around after landing there, then let’s not refer them any more.
New Scientist's evil bait-and-switch links
Someone delete the previous two comments. Something in this blasted web form keeps screwing it up!
REPOST, hopefully THIS time it will work the way it should have the first time (IT HAD BETTER):
Why the hell does this link:
One small step for man, one giant leap for yeast: multicellularity!
work but this link on their own website:
Not so simple: Gulping bugs with the nuclear option
throws up some sort of paywall login prompt instead of the promised article? Not only bait-and-switch links but inconsistent, too!
Please don’t link to this site anymore if it continues this sort of behavior. If they dislike our traffic that much that they’ll throw up gratuitous obstacles to anyone that browses around after landing there, then let’s not refer them any more.