Resurrection of a virus

Researchers at a French institute have resurrected an extinct virus from the human genome. Yes, you read it right, they resurrected it from the human genome itself. The virus, dubbed [i]phoenix[/i], is from a class of viruses known as retroviruses which ...

iGEM 2006

iGEM competition this year took place at MIT with 37 teams from all over the world participating to make [i]cool[/i] biology projects. Take a look at the competition this year at: http://www.igem2006.com ...

Misc. Philosophy Questions

Alejandro Barreto asked me a few of his philosophical questions. I am reproducing the relevant part of conversation below.

> 1. What is the basis of entire reality? And what does Godel's Incompleteness > Theorem got to do with this?

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The limit of genomic tinyness

[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10259&feedId=online-news_rss20]A new species of bacteria[/URL] has been discovered with minimalistic genome size having just over 180 genes and less than 200k bp. They say it could be an organelle into mak...