Kopiokau: The Double Espresso Blog

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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Think we have a drinking problem on our hands with beer-guzzling Friday nights?   Mother Nature introduces to you the champion of drinkers  -  the pen-tailed treeshrew (Ptilocercus lowii) - a tiny rodent seen in Malaysian forests known locally as the tupai ekor kembang. This animal, which has not been allowed into human pubs perhaps because [...]

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