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from cnn: dna evidence frees inmate after 23-years in prison - 08/07/09
computer animation showing how dna is actually copied in living cells.
could god have designed dna? in animation and pictures potholer54 shows how god has a lot of explaining to do.
article submitted by solarabyss. new york - should this world ever cease to exist, stephen colbert will live on. the comedian's dna will be digitized and sent to the international space station, comedy central was to announce monday. in october, video game designer richard garriott will travel to the station and deposit colbert's genes for an "immortality drive." "i am thrilled to have my dna shot into space, as this brings me one step closer to my lifelong dream of being the baby at the end of 2001," colbert said in a statement, referring to the 1968 landmark science fiction film "2001: a space odyssey." garriott, one of few private citizens to travel into space, is collecting material for a time capsule of human dna, a history of humanity's greatest achievements and personal messages. the host of "the colbert report" will essentially be preserved so that aliens can clone him. "in the unlikely event that earth and humanity are destroyed, mankind can be resurrected with stephen colbert's dna," garriott said in a statement. "is there a better person for us to turn to for this high-level responsibility?" source
this video shows how dna is made into rna, and transcribed into protiens, and then folded. awsome quality! easy to understand.
rome (reuters) - italian and british scientists want to exhume the body of 16th century astronomer galileo for dna tests to determine if his severe vision problems may have affected some of his findings. the scientists told reuters on thursday that dna tests would help answer some unresolved questions about the health of the man known as the father of astronomy, whom the vatican condemned for teaching that the earth revolves around the sun. "if we knew exactly what was wrong with his eyes we could use computer models to recreate what he saw in his telescope," said paolo galluzzi, director of the museum of history and science in florence, the city where galileo is buried. galileo, who lived from 1564 to 1642, is known to have had intermittent eye problems for the second half of his life and was totally blind for his last two years. "there were periods when he saw very well and periods when he did not see very well," said dr. peter watson, president of the academia ophthalmologica internationalis and consultant to addenbrooke's university hospital, cambridge. watson, who has studied galileo's handwriting, letters and portraits of the astronomer, suspects he may have had unilateral myopia, uveitis -- an inflammation of the eye's middle layer -- or a condition called creeping angle closure glaucoma. watson believes galileo did not acquire his eye problems by looking at the sun but by systemic illnesses, including an attack when he was young that left him temporarily deaf and bloody discharges and arthritis so severe he was bedridden for weeks. he was under particular stress when he was tried for heresy by the inquisition because the copernican theory he supported conflicted with the bible. one of the "errors" that galileo made, which galluzzi suspects may have been attributed to his bad eyesight, is that he believed saturn was not perfectly round but may have had an irregular, inflated side. with his 20-power telescope and with his eyes in bad shape he might have mistaken saturn's gaseous ring to surmise that it was formed of one planet with two moons as satellites. "this was probably a combination of errors. he probably expected to find satellites and his eyesight may have contributed to some confusion," said galluzzi. "a dna test will allow us to determine to what measure the pathology of the eye may have 'tricked' him," he said. "if we discover the pathology he suffered, we can formulate a mathematical model that simulates the effects it would have had on what he saw and using the same type of telescope he used we can get closer to what he actually saw," galluzzi said. "we only have sketches of what he saw. if we were able to see what he saw that would be extraordinary," he added. galileo was buried in florence's santa croce basilica about 100 years after his death. before, his remains were hidden in a bell tower room because the church opposed a proper burial. his bones were stored together with those of one of his disciples, vincenzo viviani, and those of an anonymous woman. galluzzi and others believe the bones belong to the most beloved of galileo's three illegitimate children, sister maria celeste, a nun who died when she was 33. she was the subject of the 1999 international bestseller "galileo's daughter," by dava sobel. dna would determine if she is his daughter. galluzzi said he was waiting for permission from the church to exhume the body and then would form a committee of historians, scientists and doctors to oversee the project. source
there is no taste, no sound, no light and no color our taste and sound receptors are impulse converters;there is no light and no color outside of our brain. colors and light are formed in our brains by conversion. light energy vibrations of different frequency(i.e., of different wavelengths) are converted by a transducer(the eye) into signals(impulses) that can be received and processed by neurons in the brain of as colors. love signal is a healing audio and visual meditation with music, sacred geometry and solfeggio frequency 528 hz, the miraculous frequency for transformation and dna repair. there is a special sound and color of love according to dr. horowitz, a harvard-trained award-winning investigator. broadcasting the right frequency can help open your heart, prompt peace, and hasten healing. "we now know the love signal, 528 hertz, is among the six core creative frequencies of the universe because math doesn`t lie, the geometry of physical reality universally reflects this music; these findings have been independently derived, peer reviewed, and empirically validated,".
forget the spectacle of "the maury povich show." people with lingering doubts about paternity can now go to the drugstore and quietly buy a home paternity kit. earlier this tuesday, rite aid started a national rollout of the identigene dna paternity test collection kit, with a suggested retail of $29.99, but sold at some stores for $19.99. that price does not include the $119 to have a lab evaluate cells wiped off the cheeks of the child, alleged father and mother, and send the results. the test result will not hold up in court, but that's not the intent, said doug fogg, chief operating officer for sorenson genomics of salt lake city, the maker of the product. "this is for people who are just curious. it is peace of mind for people who want to know but do not want to involve a physician or an attorney," mr. fogg said. "they might want to know the paternity of their child or their own paternity so they can rely on family medical history." it is just the latest example of genetic testing going straight to consumers. "we call it diyh -- do-it-yourself health care," said lynn dornblaser, senior new product analyst at mintel, a global research company in chicago. "there is an increase in home kits -- home pregnancy kits to take home and collect samples to determine genetic predisposition relating to heart conditions or alzheimer's. consumers are more and more focused on working it out themselves and solving their own problems." ms. dornblaser said a home paternity test fits the trend, but it is a little surprising. "'i am going to the store for diapers and a paternity test.' it has to be very embarrassing for anyone to buy this." the test's maker said it is 99.99 percent accurate, and the laboratory facility that tests results is accredited by the american association of blood banks. consumers have the option of calling the company and paying extra for a third party to collect the sample and get a result that will hold up in court. but ethicists said there is no federal oversight of any paternity test maker's claims, and there are many new paternity tests being advertised on the internet. "given the profound and ethical implications of a paternity test, you want to make sure the answer is correct," said gail javitt, law and policy director at the genetics & public policy center at johns hopkins university. "there is no oversight to make sure that the tests are clinically valid before they go to the public." art caplan, chair of the department of medical ethics at the university of pennsylvania, also worries that people might try to get samples off of an unwilling participant in his sleep. "it is possible that someone would say, 'hey, dear, guess what? we are having a fight about whose kid it is. why don't we spit in a cup?' not everyone is going to want to do that. i think it raises red flags about sneakily getting dna samples." mr. fogg counters that it would be hard to sneak a sample because it is not a saliva test, but a tissue test that requires 45 seconds of vigorous swabbing on the cheek. the company requires the written consent of people tested. dr. caplan believes a determined mother could get a sample off a sleeping subject, and he questions the emotional fallout of paternity testing without counseling. there are other unforeseen consequences. candace komar, a family law attorney in pittsburgh, said, "there are paternity laws in pennsylvania that if a child is born to an intact marriage, there is a presumption of paternity. you may do a paternity test and find the child is not yours and you will still have to be the parent. you still have child support obligations and custody rights." but mr. fogg said he has known people who did paternity tests, and it brought them peace of mind. one middle-aged woman had lingering doubts that her father was her blood relative and the test confirming that he was brought her great relief. he said the company tested the product on the west coast, and sales exceeded expectations, especially among women in their 20s. he believes people who raise ethical concerns don't understand the test. "it is not a diagnostic test. the results are straightforward and easy to understand," he said. "it does not require physician analysis. you can go to your local rite aid and get a very affordable kit and get answers about the paternity of yourself or your child." source, source
splinter refused to train this one because he couldnt think of any two-headed painters.
