Via John Tierney, this video about development is awesome:
We have a new paper out in PLoS One that I think is particularly cool: Peterson BK*, Hare EE*, Iyer VN, Storage S, Conner L, et al. (2009) Big Genomes Facilitate the Comparative Identification of Regulatory Elements. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4688. The paper is about species with big genomes – in particular species from the [...]
For those of you still with a chance to listen to NPR’s Morning Edition, there’s a really nice piece withJoe Palca following Sean Carroll as he gets a chance to look at the notebooks of Darwin and Wallace during a recent visit to London. Of course you can also listen to it online.
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