Genetics and Health Poll: Your DNA Back-Up
The Alliance to Rescue Civilization is planning a repository on the moon to store biological samples like DNA along with other records of human existence. Would you like them to include a sample of your DNA? Take the poll in the sidebar to your right and see if others feel the same as you!
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3 opinions for Genetics and Health Poll: Your DNA Back-Up
Deb
Aug 7, 2006 at 9:07 pm
I wonder what will ultimately get there? Fun post.
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Aug 19, 2006 at 8:17 pm
[…] What made me laugh, though, was finding out via RPM at evolgen that Magdalena Skipper mentioned me in Nature Reviews Genetics but attributed Mendel’s Garden to me (it was Paul Decelle’s idea!) and mentions some Genetics and Health posts like the DNA repository on the moon (have you taken the poll?) without providing links. All in all, a very poorly researched article that disappointed all of us genetics bloggers; most of whom can be found in the genetics blogroll in the far right sidebar. Crazeee! […]
Inoculated Mind
Aug 19, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Hmmm, I don’t think a genetic repository on the Moon would be a very good idea. I’m thinking about the ionizing radiation that the Moon gets, and what that will do to the DNA. You might as well stick one somewhere in the Middle East and it will have better chances…
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