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Police identify girl found dead in box; arrest mom and stepfather

Police have identified a little girl whose body washed ashore in a box last month, and... more

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Free and Uneasy

Vindicated by DNA, but a Lost Man on the Outside As a boy, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic... more

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Elvis Is Alive Museum isn't dead

Don't count Andy Key as one of those Elvis Presley fanatics who insist the King... more

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Social networking for your genes

"This winter marks the birth of a new industry: Companies will take a sample of your DNA, scan it, and tell you about your genetic future, as well as your ancestral past. A much-anticipated Silicon Valley startup called 23andMe offers a thorough tour of your genealogy, tracing your DNA back through the eons. Sign up members of your family and you can track generations of inheritance for traits like athletic endurance or bitter-taste blindness. The company will also tell you which diseases and conditions are associated with your genes from colorectal cancer to lactose intolerance giving you the ability to take preventive action."

"This is also where a novel use of social-networking tools comes in. Wojcicki envisions groups of customers coming together around shared genotypes and SNPs, comparing notes about their conditions or backgrounds and identifying areas for further scientific research on their own. "It's a great way for individuals to be involved in the research world," Wojcicki says. "You'll have a profile, and something almost like a ribbon marking participation in these different research papers. It'll be like, How many Nature articles have you been part of?'" (Social networking will be included in version 2.0 in a matter of months, Avey says.)"

When I first read a blurb about this new startup a couple of months back I thought to myself Google had finally gone too far. But, this article dispels most of the fears that initially came to mind and actually opens doors to really interesting possibilities.

Why settle with knowing what bands, books or movies your friends are into when you can actually go so much deeper an uncover what their genetic makeup really says about them. I'm sure their will also be some privacy measures set in place and for $1,000 a pop (and my freakin DNA) this better be the case.

All sarcasm aside, I would be really interested to find out if my last name has anything to do with a small town in Spain of the same namesake. It would also be helpful to know if I'm predisposed to any type of disease that I could help prevent due to this knowledge.

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sendiong DNA to outer space.

BeInSpace preserves and spreads life as we know it to outer space. It has opened a... more

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spread life to outer space

People all over the world gathered around a project for the purpose of spreading life to other planets and leaving an everlasting mark in the universe. BeInSpace, a non governmental project, aims to preserve and spread life as we know it to outer space. It has opened a portal that allows users to send their DNA and upload Digital information that would be sent to outer space in the spring of 2009. "This is the only thing that would remain of us, and it can sprout life on a new fertile plant" says Solomon Byron, an excited user, that sent his DNA with hopes that it would last forever.

Francis Crick, a Nobel Prize winner for the co-discovery of a double helical structure (DNA) published a paper suggesting that life may have arrived on Earth through a process called Directed Panspermia. The Panspermia hypothesis suggests that the seeds of life are common in the universe and can be spread between worlds. He also suggested that other civilizations could have sent it to earth. "Why shouldn't we do the same? As an intelligent being we have an obligation to spread life to other planets! " Says Agmon David CEO of BeInSpace and emphasize "Someday, somehow, life on earth will come to an end, perhaps due to wars, floods, diseases, or the expansion of the sun to a red giant. Our role as a civilization should be to help preserve life beyond earth."

www.BeInSpace.com intends to collect 1 Tara byte of a variety of digital data such as web pages, blogs, letters, songs, stories, photos, ideas worth spreading,MP3,EXE Flash and other files- anything that is digital and is uploaded to BeInSpace . Such data, known as Memes, are nun genetic replicators that define our cultural information and expresses what we are.
BeInSpace also collects DNA (genetic information) with participators receiving a simple kit for collecting their own DNA. Once the kit is returned to BeInSpace, they will separate the DNA from the cell, encapsulate it, and send it to outer space. "By sending our DNA into space, we will be protecting the millions of years of evolution that are folded within each of our cells, and assuring a part of life will float in deep space far into the future" says Agmon.

How far? To ship the memes and genes into outer space, BeInSpace has established contacts with
Leading providers of space shuttle service and will ship the data out of the atmosphere, through space, leaving the solar system on a permanent celestial journey.

The cost for each file, that is uploaded, is a fee based on the type and amount of MBs that are uploaded. Every MB costs $2. spreading life and Sending a DNA sample is only $87.

30 years ago Carl Sagan sent on a voyager a plate with information and said:
"A billion years from now, when everything on Earth we've ever made has crumbled into dust, when the continents are changed beyond recognition and our species is unimaginably altered or extinct, the Voyager will still speak for us"

The BeInSpace ambitious project will contain a billion times more information then the Voyager and contains DNA that will give hope for the beginning of life in other distant planets.
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Fruit Fly Genome Generating Buzz

It is allowing scientists to understand better why we share most of our genes with... more

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No more head & shoulders!

Human Genome folks have unlocked the dandruff gene! This sounds more and more like a... more

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Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'

"Some Neanderthals were probably redheads, a DNA study has shown.... more

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James Watson Retires After Racial Remarks

"James D. Watson, the eminent biologist who ignited an uproar last week with... more

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Another Step Towards DNA Bigotry

It is usually on the topic of sci-fi movies and irrational conversation: the concept... more

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Genome Googling

You might want to sequence that prospective mate before the next date. Yikes!

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Nobel Prize genius Crick was on LSD when he cracked the secret to life

DNA discoverer Crick was an LSD user and an Aldous Huxley fan. Who knew? This... more

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Chromosome caps may explain cell immortality

Telomeres, the supposedly "dead" sections of DNA that cap the ends of... more

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DNA Scientist is Sorry

A Nobel prize-winning geneticist who sparked a furore after claiming that black people... more

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Watson suspended after saying Africans are less intelligent than Europeans.

"The Nobel Prize-winning DNA pioneer James Watson has been suspended by his... more

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DNA Pioneer Claims "Black People Less Intelligent Than White"

A speaking tour by the nobel prize winning Dr James Watson was thrown into chaos last... more

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Protein Can Be Poison

The Pod Shows a small portion of my life with Phyenylketonuria (PKU), a genetic... more

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Hey, I'm just gonna boot up some new lifeforms over here, okay?

Saw Juan Enriquez speak at a Long Now Foundation lecture last night in SF -- it was a... more

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get your dna straight

A new UC Davis study that explains the actions of a gene mutation that causes early... more

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