Kopiokau: The Double Espresso Blog

Scientists at the University of Queensland have discovered a fish living in the coral reefs that changes color to mimic and blend in with other fish.  This gives it the ability to launch a surprise attack.
This is the fangblenny, which can change its colors at will to blend in with any passing shoal fish, are [...]

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Researchers have noted that feeding purple tomatoes to laboratory mice which had a genetic defect predisposing them to a higher chance of cancer actually prolonged their lifespan.
This findings were published in Nature Biotechnology.
The modified tomatoes were created by introducing 2 genes (Delila and Rosea1) from the snapdragon flower into the tomato plant.  The two genes [...]

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Would you believe that it is now possible to produce trout from salmon, a different species of fish?
Strange but true: although it does not seem impossible - salmon and trout are related members of mostly two common genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus. 
Japanese researchers have successfully implanted primitive sperm cells of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) into [...]

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