DNA, Fifty Years To the Day 202
An anonymous reader writes "Today being the fiftieth anniversary (April 2, 1953) of the Watson-Crick double-helical, DNA discovery [to quote, 'We wish to put forward a radically different structure...'], there is an interesting tally of completed gene sequences here, and ones still being worked, including the Ames strain of the anthrax bacteria. It also appears that the only lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the common cold."
In Other News... (Score:2, Funny)
Scientists are calling this the EVIL PAIR. Finding this in DNA insures that the organism is PURE EVIL.
To celebrate... (Score:3, Funny)
What I want to know is... (Score:2, Funny)
My real spider monkey can't wait that long to meet the world. Oooo AH AH AHHH!!!!
Seriously, happy 50th, DNA!
they should.. (Score:4, Funny)
Bake a Cake (Score:5, Funny)
Also in this month's Smithsonian Magazine (Score:2, Funny)
Now if they could only create a DNA custom engineered beowulf cluster of atomic supermen...
Re:In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
Lionel Hutz: Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty. I refer you to my expert witness, Dr. Hibbert.
Hibbert: Well, only one in two million people has what we call the "evil gene". (holds up a card showing DNA) Hitler had it, Walt Disney had it, and Freddy Quimby has it. (chuckles)
Hutz: Thank you, Dr. Hibbert. I rest my case.
Judge: You rest your case?
Hutz: What? Oh no, I thought that was just a figure of speech. Case closed.