One day, Hudson Wingate was a healthy 13-month-old headed for fun at daycare. The next day, he was headed for admission to Rady Children’s Hospital. His vocal cords were suddenly paralyzed, and he could hardly breathe. He could no longer pull himself up, walk, talk or swallow. The medical team’s best assessment, based on the…| Rady Children's Health
Mario Luna, an eighth-grader from Culver City, has always been passionate about basketball. He even dreams of playing in the NBA one day. However, on January 12, his world was turned upside down. It all started with a stomachache which quickly turned into a more serious heart condition. Mario’s heart began beating uncontrollably and his…| Rady Children's Health
The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must be faithfully copied. This staggering task happens over and over with extraordinary precision. Decades of research have revealed how dozens of proteins work... The post Licensed to live appeared first on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
We ran our original story on Neoplants back in late 2022, reporting how a single genetically-engineered plant could do the work of an actual indoor air purifier.Now, the company is back with a few tweaks to this impressive project.The Neo Px is, at first glance, a regular Pothos plant of the Queen Marble variety, housed […]| TechTheLead
In 2008-2009, a friend gave me a copy of John Sanford’s book, Genetic Entropy. He told me that it thoroughly disproved evolution and proved young earth creationism. He urged me to read it, and use my scientific training to advance the … Continue reading →| Letters to Creationists
Good evening, our fellow amateur biologists. The autumn is already in the rearview mirror with a cold snap heading our way, and the Thanksgiving week is already upon us. It’s hard to believe seven months passed since the last update and renewal of the Binomica Labs page. Somehow I felt it was only a month… Continue reading ASM2088962v1 – Our first Genbank genome| Small Thoughtful Science
Pairwise sequence alignment is a useful tool in many fields of biology. For example, the similarity between sequences can used be in evolutionary analysis to...| Rehan Guha -Portfolio & Blog