by msander | Mar 13, 2017 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
Scientists have created living bacteria with two extra letters of genetic code, nicknamed X, and Y for short. Help me make Sciencium: http://ve42.co/JoinUs For more info: http://ve42.co/SAsynthEcoli Animated by Kyle Norby Life has been evolving on earth for about 3.7...
by msander | Mar 9, 2017 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
PROJECT DETAILS Is the fish on your plate what you think it is? Food is an extremely important part of our lives. People are concerned about the rising cost of food and where their food comes from. Consumers want to know if they are getting what they pay for....
by cbrookallred | Apr 9, 2015 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
Is it nature or nurture? That was the theme of a Café Scientifique in Toronto, hosted by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Three experts talked about the field of epigenetics and how the ‘nature or nurture’ debate is a futile argument. Recent...
by msander | Mar 9, 2015 | Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us-f9epWuuA&w=728&h=408] The arrangement of the letters in your DNA sequence is not the only thing that shapes you—there’s also the mechanisms that decide what genes get turned on or off, and when. Recently, a...
by msander | Feb 23, 2015 | Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPAg50-ciZM&w=728&h=408] This week, British legislators in the House of Commons voted to enact laws that would make the U.K. the first country to allow the in vitro fertilization technique known as mitochondrial...
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