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Avery searched for radioactivity and found it only within the bacteria, not the virus shells. Hershey and Chase then reversed the experiment, spiking the protein in the viruses with radioactive tracers. Once the viruses had infected E. coli, only the empty shells were radioactive. A decade after Avery’s experiment,
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life


John Fagan is a molecular biologist who for more than twenty years was funded by the National Institutes of Health to conduct genetic engineering research. But in 1994, he returned more than $600,000 to the NIH and withdrew his proposals for another $1.25 million. Then he launched a global campaign to alert the public about the hazards of genetic e
... See moreDean Ornish M.D. • The Food Revolution
Le docteur Lynne A. Isbell, professeur d’anthropologie et de comportement animal à l’université de Californie, suggéra que notre façon de voir le monde était une adaptation qu’on nous avait imposée des dizaines de millions d’années auparavant, par nécessité de repérer et éviter le terrible danger que représentaient les serpents avec qui nos ancêtre
... See moreJordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
For example, scientists at the Santa Fe Institute, such as Artemy Kolchinsky and distinguished physicist David Wolpert, are working on semantic information measures based on an approach known as teleosemantics, which assumes that the system being analyzed pursues some objective.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
Et les bactéries d'Edmond ? – Lui-même déclarait qu'il ne faisait qu'étudier ses ancêtres. Disons qu'il remontait un peu plus haut que la normale dans son arbre généalogique…