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The Very High Life: Part Two

July 23, 2009

Now that I’ve convinced you you probably shouldn’t take your next vacation in the Atacama Desert (unless you’re into that sort of thing, if you know what I mean), let’s look at the organisms that scientists did find living and loving life in the 3 3/4 Mile-High Club.
Living on the moist, warm ground were moss [...]

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The Six Million Dollar Moss: Why Biology is WAY Cooler Than Nuclear Physics

May 27, 2009

As mentioned in the last post, for some reason (actually quite a good reason we’ll get to soon) scientists at ETH Zurich and the University of Freiburg im Breisgau thought it’d be a great idea to splice some human genes into . . . er, moss . . .  and see what happened. Ordinarily, you’d [...]

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