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by favoritecolor 3y ago
I think this might count as endosymbiosis replicated in a lab: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30373839/
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by favoritecolor 3y ago
People used to think it was really rare -- until someone actually recreated it in the lab[0]. In this paper, the researchers created a strain of bacteria (prokaryote) that would only survive if engulfed by modified strain of yeast (eukaryot
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by favoritecolor 3y ago
Link to the actual publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05922-y
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AR3038: A giant sunspot that has doubled in size in only 24 hours(techexplorist.com)
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by favoritecolor 5y ago
Original paper linked here (behind paywall) [0]. The researchers introduced the human FTO gene into plants to increase crop yields. Would this be cannibalism? You could use RNA demethylases from other organisms for sure, but it's a rea
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by favoritecolor 5y ago
I don't think this article gives the pro-"Junk DNA" arguments fair treatment. Check out Larry Moran's blog [1, 2] if you want to to hear the other side of the story. He maintains that most of the human genome IS junk, an
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Royal Medal of Recompense(en.wikipedia.org)
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by favoritecolor 5y ago
Link to actual study: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
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by favoritecolor 5y ago
I love when I see smell research on Hacker News -- and hopefully I can provide a bit of context about this paper. This finding recently made a big splash at AChemS 2021 (the annual meeting for the Association for Chemoreception Sciences). A
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by favoritecolor 5y ago
This is a pretty brute force method for genetic engineering -- and yet it works! It's essentially just pressing fast forward on evolution. But this is wildly inefficient. Plant genomes are often ridiculously large (e.g., the onion geno
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Volcano Watch – Tiny changes at Mauna Loa’s summit hold big clues(usgs.gov)
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Grammy Award for Best Recording Package(en.wikipedia.org)
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by favoritecolor 6y ago
Thanks for the link! Cool to think about how the evolution of smell has optimized for "a maximum entropy code." I totally agree, it's a feature not a bug. A wide spectrum is absolutely an essential feature for an animal to se
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by favoritecolor 6y ago
Love seeing these types of posts on HN! Every now and then I see a post about olfaction, and since I am in the olfactory receptor research space, I just want to put my two cents out there. Digital chemical sensing is hard, and yet biologica
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Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Principles of Scientific Management(en.wikipedia.org)
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