Tag: "mutation"
Frankenstein vs. Godzilla: What’s in Your Cereal Bowl?
In all of the recent discussion about genetically modified (GM) foods here in California, we’ve overlooked regular foods and how new traits are found (or created) in them. There isn’t usually a monk lovingly breeding peas in the Austrian countryside somewhere. Instead, more often than not, there is someone blasting a seed with radiation and/or harmful chemicals.
Post on Oct 31, 2012 by Dr. Barry Starr from QUEST Northern California
Desperately Seeking Autism Genes
Autism is incredibly frustrating from a genetic point of view. Every study clearly shows that genetics plays an important role in this disease. But when these studies try to find a cause, they keep coming up short.
Post on Apr 30, 2012 by Dr. Barry Starr from QUEST Northern California
Geneticists Solve Van Gogh's Mutant Sunflowers After 125 Years
Most admirers of Vincent van Gogh's iconic "Sunflower" paintings gaze upon the golden inflorescences without any awareness of the scientific conundrum they pose. But researchers from the University of Georgia have finally cracked the case with a paper published in PLoS Genetics.
Post on Apr 03, 2012 by Danna Staaf from QUEST Northern California
Secretive Openness
It will take a long time for scientists to figure out why those redwoods in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park are albino. And because of the way science is set up, it will take the public even longer to find out the answer.
Post on Mar 14, 2011 by Dr. Barry Starr
Redwood Regeneration
QUEST has an inordinate fondness for albino redwoods. But after producing three videos, QUEST Producer Chris Bauer still had questions.
Post on Feb 28, 2011 by Jennifer Skene
Post on Dec 20, 2010 by Dr. Barry Starr
Ghostbusters of the Forest
Because clones aren't always the same, Stanford geneticists have a pretty good shot at figuring out what makes a redwood albino using DNA sequencing.
Post on Nov 22, 2010 by Dr. Barry Starr
Fearing 1918
A lot of people have been commenting about the apparent overreaction of governments to the swine flu. Why go to such extreme measures to deal with simple influenza? The reason has to do with the flu pandemic of 1918-1919.
Post on May 11, 2009 by Dr. Barry Starr
