Viruses: The Original Genome Editors
Viruses stealthily spread among us, commandeering our very cells and waging a relentless war with our immune systems. You know them for everything from the common cold and flu […]
Tag Archives: DNA
Genetic Memories: How Diet And Stress Can Affect Your Epigenome
Are we a product of our environment or bound to a predetermined fate dictated by our genes? To answer the age old nature versus nurture dilemma, both. It is widely […]
The Great Migration
I remember sitting down at a traditional Korean restaurant and watching the waitress hand all of my Korean friends chopsticks and then hand a fork to me. That lady didn’t […]
The Manifold Attractions of DNA Origami
Origami is a craft that transforms the simplest materials into intricate works of art. Precise folds and careful planning draw fantastic creatures from an otherwise unremarkable sheet of paper: cranes, […]
Fighting Poaching with Science
by Sonny Thakur, Athens Science Café One of the more direct and disturbing ways that humans are causing environmental damage is poaching, or illegally hunting wild animals for commercial reasons. […]
The Shadow Biosphere and the Idea of Hidden Life Forms
by Nick Batora, Athens Science Café There is incredible and beautiful diversity of life all around you. No, I’m not talking about the wildlife at your local botanical garden or […]
Editing the Human Genome: With Great Power There Must Also Come Great Responsibility
In 1963, at the dawn of the molecular biology age, Dr. Joshua Lederberg predicted that this nascent biotechnology would eventually allow direct control of human DNA, including the ability to […]
Can We Resurrect the Mammoth?
The woolly mammoth is inarguably the mascot of the Ice Age. With countless depictions in popular culture, one would be hard pressed to find someone unfamiliar with the hairy giant […]
Killer Chromosomes
There’s a killer lurking in the woods of North America, hiding in a place you would never suspect: the testes of a tiny fruit fly called Drosophila neotestacea. The testes […]
The Mark of a Bad Parent: How Parental Epigenetic Marks Influence Offspring Development
When I was a kid, I used to travel to my local mall with all of my friends. At the mall, one of the coolest stores to visit was called […]
