A group of Israeli scientists have achieved something unthinkable, germinate a seed of date palm with a length of about 2,000 years. The seed, known as Methuselah was found in the ruins of Herod’s palace, and after 26 months, has obtained a plant...
Topics: ancient dna, Archeology, Biology, biology archeology, Botany, DNA and Biology, Science news

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Engineers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a composite of paper with nanothreads completely waterproof and has an extraordinary ability to absorb hydrophobic materials (like oil). According to its creators, this...
Topics: ecology, Environment, Oli

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Laboratory tests on the vehicle explorer “Phoenix” confirmed the existence of water on the planet Mars, NASA said today. The U.S. space agency said yesterday that the robotic arm of “Phoenix” deposited one sample in an instrument..
Topics: Astronomy, Science news, Space

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As biotechnology advances and the methods to detect and analyse DNA are more sensitive and accurate, scientists have found a new twist to the power of DNA. A recent paper in Biology Letters reports that it has been possible to detect the presence of the..
Topics: dna, DNA and Biology, ecology, Environment, frogs, rana

{"title":"\u201cShe was here, I can smell her DNA!\u201d","post_url":"http:\/\/www.theblogofscience.com\/she-was-here-i-can-smell-her-dna\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/www.paternitytestinglabs.com\/feed\/","author":"copernico","date":"2008-04-27 23:08:02","summary":"As biotechnology advances and the methods to detect and analyse DNA are more sensitive and accurate, scientists have found a new twist to the power of DNA. A recent paper in Biology Letters reports that it has been possible to detect the presence of the.."}

A huge step has just been made in the race to achieve a permanent lunar colony. Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, have managed to set up a successful bacterial culture on a substrate made with lunar soil, plus the...
Topics: Astronomy, Biology, cyanobacteria, moon colonization, Science news, Space

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