Finding Q 16 Apr 2009 Elio Schaechter has a nice piece up on the recent success at growing a pure line of Coxellia pathogens, the cause of Q Fever. I have been told that fewer than 10% of all microbes are able to be grown in cell-free media, so perhaps this will be the start of a new set of methodologies. Doing this means that pathogens and other microbes will be able to be sequenced and studied in vitro. Ecology and Biodiversity Evolution General Science
Epistemology Belief and evolution 30 Jun 201130 Jun 2011 One of my favourite songs is “I don’t believe in the sun” by the Magnetic Fields, in which the protagonist declares that there can’t be a sun because it would shine on other guys, not me, when his woman love has left him. Imagine if there were people who thought… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Primate researcher in Brazil gets 14 years for a permit problem 7 Jul 2007 Naturalised Brazilian, Dutch biologist Marc van Roosmalen, has been sentenced to 14 years jail in Brazil for running a monkey refuge without a permit from Ibama, the local environmental agency. Not that he didn’t apply, mark you, but Ibama didn’t respond, and the received local wisdom is that if they don’t within 45 days, it’s approved. Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design New work on lateral transfer shows that Darwin was wrong 31 Mar 200918 Sep 2017 A new study into the transfer of genetic material laterally, or across taxonomic divisions, has shown that evolution does not proceed as Darwin thought, and that in fact the present theory of evolution is entirely false. Instead, it transpires that lateral genetic transfer makes new species much more like Empedocles‘… Read More
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser
I hope MI5 don’t have as much trouble finding a new Q. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/18/mi5-recruit-scientific-adviser