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Gene Drive and the Engineering of Extinction – Part I

Image source What do you think is the most dangerous animal on Earth? Forget about predators with shiny fangs, the animal responsible for the highest number of ...

The Birthday Paradox and Our Awful Human Intuitions When It Comes to Probabilities and Exponents

Here's the riddle: you have a room full of people and you want to find two people who share a birthday. The question is how many people do you need to get in th...

(Re-)Create Life in a Lab - Part III

DNA is an amazing molecule on many levels. It is the support of genetic information in all known organisms, from the simplest bacteria to the most complex organ...

What I Learnt This Week 10: Genetics has its touch on the brain, Flu against cancer, Microbes on human waste, Old antibiotics against infections & Smoking ain't as it seems.

I appreciate everyone that has kept coming to view this series. This series is 10 weeks old today which means the first series was on November 25TH, 2017 - that...

Are Dogs friendly because of a mental disease?

Are you a cat or a dog person?  If you chose the second option, maybe it is because you enjoy interacting with others (which is also why you are on Steemit...

Faith Versus Fact : Can science coexist with religion?

In May 1988, a thirteen-year-old girl named Ashley King was sent to the Phoenix Children's Hospital (capital of Arizona) by court order. She had a swelling in h...

Exercising to Death - What is Rhabdomyolysis?

G'day team, I really think I've got the hang of this "sensationalist headings thing".. sooo today we'll be chatting about a little condition called Rhabdomyolys...

(Re-)Create Life in a Lab - Part II

As we saw in the first article of this series, defining Life is not as easy as it seems. Now that we know the key characteristics that differentiate living orga...

Automation: the unstoppable future ~ Episode 00

Image Source It seems beyond debate: we are in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And it's incredibly scary. With the extensive use of computers, r...

[CRISPR 101] DNA breaks, Gene Expression and DNA repair

This article is part of a series about the basics of genetic engineering with CRISPR, if you are not familiar with the subject, I strongly encourage you to read...

(Re-)Create Life in a Lab - Part I

What defines life? This might seem like a silly question for a biologist but answering it is trickier than it seems.   What makes you alive? The ability to...

Do Lobsters hold the secret to immortality?

How cute! Image Source There is still no scientific consensus on whether lobsters feel pain or not (but people are actively working on the question). However, t...

The Great GATC-by: The Most Famous Science Paper of the 20th Century

The Helix bridge in Singapore. It's even got the letters G, A, T, and C light up at night. I worry what might happen if it starts replicating itself. That's a g...

French Biology Guy, at your service!

Hi there!  I’m very happy to join the Steemit community and try to bring my contribution to the platform!  Here is a little bit about me: I was born i...

The Great Kitchen Blender Experiments: How DNA was proved to be the seat of heredity

A Waring Blender. It doesn't just make smoothies. Source: Wikimedia Commons contributors Introduction (aka the hook) 1952 wasn't just the year when Geoffrey Dum...

[CRISPR 101] What is CRISPR?

     While new technologies are often welcomed by the public with a mix of excitement and legitimate suspicion, few have raised as many...