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  How to Genetically Engineer Your Children to Be Rich

  Designing the Perfect Human   Designer Babies-R-Us There has been a lot of debate in the news lately about the fears of creating designer babies and the implications it could have on our society, and on future generations of humanity if those new genes get passed down. But that’s no fun to talk about, so […]

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  “Incredible Hulk” Drug Uses Genetic Research to Increase Muscle Growth

  Bodybuilding Gene Leads to Drug That Inhibits Myostatin In a previous article about genetic bodybuilding I mentioned the research behind the potential muscle building properties of the myostatin gene. The Myostatin Gene Controversy Myostatin is a protein that prevents your muscles from growing too large. For most animals, if your muscles grow too large your body […]

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  How Rosalind Franklin Proved The Shape of DNA

  The Google Doodle Celebrates the Life and Discoveries of Rosalind Franklin: The First Person to Photograph DNA’s Structure On Thursday, July 25th, you may have noticed Google’s homepage altered to celebrate one of the key discoveries in science: the discovery of the structure of DNA. But their doodle didn’t refer to the usual men celebrated […]

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  The World’s Oldest Living DNA

  The Most Successful Genes on Earth What makes an organism successful? Longevity  – Tortoises can live over 200 years Strength – Rhino beetles can carry over 850 times their own body weight Reproduction – Rabbit females can produce up to 100 babies per year Accolades – Jonathan Goldsmith , “the Most Interesting Man in the […]

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  Dark DNA May Reveal New Lifeforms

  You probably didn’t know that Viruses make up most of the DNA on our planet. There are more viruses on earth than there are stars in the universe.  That’s a really, really, REALLY big number. Viruses inject their DNA into their hosts, thus preserving their DNA and allowing it to replicate.  It is estimated that […]