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Mutant double-flowered sunflower of the Teddy Bear type

A genetic research for the mutant sunflowers painted by Vincent van Gogh

Massimo Luciani March 30, 2012 0

The origin of the mutation of the special sunflowers painted by Vincent van Gogh was mysterious but a recent study by a team of scientists at the University of Georgia has identified the gene responsible.

R.I.P. Renato Dulbecco

Massimo Luciani February 20, 2012 1

Italian biologist, doctor and geneticist Renato Dulbecco died of a heart attack. With Howard Termin and David Baltimore in 1975 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

Trilobite fossile from the Burgess Shale

An online museum for the extraordinary Burgess Shale fossils

Massimo Luciani December 2, 2011 13

The Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada, the national agency that has the mandate to protect Canada’s natural and cultural heritage, opened a new site which is an online museum of the Burgess Shale, a unique field of fossils from the Middle Cambrian, about five hundred million years ago.

Stephen Jay Gould was born 70 years ago

Massimo Luciani September 10, 2011 1

Stephen Jay Gould was born on September 10, 1941 in Bayside, New York. He wrote many scientific essays, papers and articles. As a researcher he’s most famous for his theory of punctuated equilibrium.

Happy birthday Richard Dawkins!

Massimo Luciani March 26, 2011 4

Clinton Richard Dawkins was born in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 26, 1941. He’s one of the most famous writers of popular science in the world thanks to his essays about evolutionism. He’s also famous because he’s an atheist and critic of religions and irrational beliefs in general.