Students Build The First Eukaryotic Chromosome From Scratch

Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch 

In March undergraduate students in Johns Hopkins University’s Build a Genome course announced they had made a yeast chromosome from scratch—and history, too. It is the first time anyone has synthesized the chromosome of a complex organism, a landmark achievement in the field of synthetic biology. It is also a triumph for the movement known as DIY biology.

Read more via Scientific American

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A company in Switzerland has figured out how to imprint holograms in chocolate, like the security ones on credit cards. And they’ve done it without additives.

There are microstructures on the surface of the chocolate which bend and scatter the light about, making the hologram image.

I want all of it.

Happy Father's Day to all those who celebrate it, And to those who don't: I wish you a wonderful evening!

Leopard slugs (Limax maximus) mating! While dangling on a thick line of mucus, both slugs extend their male reproductive organs from their heads and twine them together to exchange sperm.

Source. And diagrams of those dreamy sex organs.

I usually just curl up under the desk…

(Bodega, NYC)

OK Go’s new music video is 4 straight minutes of mind-blowing optical illusions

According to Rolling Stone, it took 50 takes to get the video just right — but all that hard work definitely paid off