" . . . relay this information to Earth. Tsien destroyed three hours ago. I'm only survivor. Using my suit radio – no idea if it has enough range, but it's the only chance. Please listen carefully. THERE IS LIFE ON EUROPA. I repeat: THERE..
Topics: aliens and monsters, free fiction, written word: novels, written word: short fiction

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"What you want is to add and subtract lengths of input DNA easily, and the feedback enzyme arrangement does this. When the feedback arrangement is in place, the molecule will open itself up for transcription much more easily, and more rapidly. Your..
Topics: biochemistry, written word: novels, written word: short fiction

{"title":"Science Fictional Ribosomes","post_url":"http:\/\/sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/science-fictional-ribosomes.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BiologyinScienceFiction","author":"PeggyK","date":"2009-10-08 01:33:40","summary":"\"What you want is to add and subtract lengths of input DNA easily, and the feedback enzyme arrangement does this. When the feedback arrangement is in place, the molecule will open itself up for transcription much more easily, and more rapidly. Your.."}

It was announced today that Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostack won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their "discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase." While the...
Topics: longevity, medicine, television, written word: novels

{"title":"Telomeres, Aging, and Science Fiction","post_url":"http:\/\/sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/telomeres-and-aging.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BiologyinScienceFiction","author":"PeggyK","date":"2009-10-06 11:39:22","summary":"It was announced today that Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostack won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their \"discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.\" While the..."}

Imagine that at some point in the near future explorers on the moon discovered a dead space suit-clad body. Imagine further that examination of the body - nicknamed "Charlie" turned out to be 50,000 years old - and fully human. That's the..
Topics: evolution, free fiction, paleontology

{"title":"And there were giants in those days . . .","post_url":"http:\/\/sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/and-there-were-giants-in-those-days.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BiologyinScienceFiction","author":"PeggyK","date":"2009-10-01 03:26:31","summary":"Imagine that at some point in the near future explorers on the moon discovered a dead space suit-clad body. Imagine further that examination of the body - nicknamed \"Charlie\" turned out to be 50,000 years old - and fully human. That's the.."}

The September 19th issue of London-based popular science magazine New Scientist is a special section, "Sci-fi special: The fiction of now" *, guest edited by Kim Stanley Robinson. I don't feel like I know enough to either agree or...
Topics: cloning, free fiction

{"title":"The Fiction of Now","post_url":"http:\/\/sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/fiction-of-now.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/BiologyinScienceFiction","author":"PeggyK","date":"2009-09-30 11:27:03","summary":"The September 19th issue of London-based popular science magazine New Scientist is a special section, \"Sci-fi special: The fiction of now\" *, guest edited by Kim Stanley Robinson. I don't feel like I know enough to either agree or..."}