] Ensembl presents up-to-date sequence data and the best
] possible annotation for metazoan genomes. Available now
] are human, mouse, rat, fugu, zebrafish, mosquito,
] Drosophila, C. elegans, and C. briggsae, Others will be
] added soon.

Surf the human genome!

[Surf's up dude:) - Nano]

Ensembl Genome Browser

] Stanford University researchers seeking better-looking
] DNA have created XDNA, extra-large DNA molecules that
] glow.

Wired News: DNA, Now in XXX-Large

Whoa....lots of fire in Cali....this pic is cool

NASA - NASA Satellites Watch California Wildfires

Dolemite wrote:
] ] John Mayer is the best thing to happen to vanilla sex
] ] since the missionary position. Much like the regularly
] ] maligned ice cream flavor, kinkless intercourse has
] ] always been tastier than advertised. So when the
] ] musically and sexually adventurous alike dismiss Mayer's
] ] Berklee-tutored guitar and Abercrombie-swaddled purr as
] ] aural Vicodin for soccer moms and timid schoolgirls, it
] ] only goes to show how limited a palette both kinds of
] ] fetishists have. In fact, Mayer's new "Heavier Things" is
] ] just the thing to heat your bathwater on those occasions
] ] when you don't want to get your freak on -- but you're
] ] still game for seeing where some heavy petting might
] ] lead.
]
] I had to meme this because I know that nanochick is such a
] huge fan of John Mayer.

mmmmmm....John Mayer.....

RE: His body (of work) is a wonderland

Decius wrote:
] ] Four research papers presented at the American
] ] Association for Cancer Research conference in Phoenix
] ] suggest green tea is useful in fighting certain types of
] ] cancer, in addition to lowering cholesterol, preventing
] ] heart disease, boosting oral hygiene and possibly aiding
] ] in weight loss.
] ]

Actually, its not just green tea...its all teas....They have antioxidants in them that help your body flush out oxygen free radicals, which is a major player in cancer. So drink up:)

RE: Green tea beneficial vs. cancer

] Why? It's an evolutionary mystery. The ability to regrow
] legs and eyes seems like a clear Darwinian advantage -
] one that surviving generations would have retained. But a
] paradox of regeneration is that the higher you move up
] the evolutionary chain, the less likely you'll have the
] ability to regrow limbs or organs. Keating's mission:
] figure out the cause of this paradox - and reverse it.

Regrow Your Own Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here.

] Ralph Merkle, a Foresight founder who is now director of
] the Georgia Tech Information Security Center, says the
] group has always known its set of guidelines for nanotech
] regulation - really, a set of self-regulatory
] measures that ensure human control over nanotech -
] would not apply to real nanotechnology for decades. But
] one of Foresight's objectives is that there is adequate
] public discussion "well in advance of reality."
]
] "I think that one of the things that happens in any
] discourse about some complex subject is you get a lot of
] confusion," Merkle said. "That's part and parcel of the
] process, and so what you want to do is start the
] discussion early, and as time goes by the confusion
] gradually settles down. In other words, people make wild
] statements. Fine. They make statements that aren't
] accurate. Fine.
]
] "As time goes on, people will look back and see what was
] accurate and not."

This is an interesting discussion of nanoethics that has general implications for discussions of bioethics.

Small Times: NanoEthics

Jeremy wrote:
] From the Scout Report: This fascinating collection of
] social hygiene posters (designed to inculcate certain social
] practices regarding hygiene, friendship, prostitution, and
] mental health) is culled from the fine holdings of the Social
] Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota
] Libraries.
]
] There are some gems to be found here, and the collection is
] easily browsed. Consider "Beware of Chance Acquaintances" and
] "Danger in Familiarities".

[These rock...thanks Jeremy....good find:) - Nano]

RE: American Social Hygiene Posters, ca. 1910-1970

Laying a broad basis for possible future prescriptions, the President's Council on Bioethics yesterday issued an analysis of how biotechnology could lead toward unintended and destructive ends.

Called "Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness," the council's report concerns present and future interventions intended not to restore health but rather to alter genetic inheritance, to enhance mind or body, or to extend life span beyond its natural limits

Bush's Advisers on Biotechnology Express Concern on Its Use

We examine how several prominent and (generally) salutary human pursuits may be aided or altered using a wide variety of biotechnologies that lend themselves to purposes “beyond therapy.” In each case, we discuss the character of the end, consider the novel means, and explore some possible implications, ethical and social.

In surveying the pertinent technologies, we take a somewhat long-range view, looking at humanly significant technical possibilities that may soon -- or not so soon -- be available for general use, yet at the same time trying to separate fact from science fiction.

Biotechnology beyond therapy deserves to be examined not in fragments, but as a whole. Yet, the "whole" that offers us the most revealing insights into this subject is not itself technological. For the age of biotechnology is not so much about technology itself as it is about human beings empowered by biotechnology

Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness