Trying out http://wakoopa.com w/ a private profile so I can track my application usage. Hoping it will help me identify time sinks.
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Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, May 1, 2008 @ 13:46 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
I’m sure at some point as genetic testing becomes more common the insurance companies will find a way around the protections provided by this bill, however this is still great news today.
Oddly enough, Ron Paul was the only member of Congress to vote against it. I’m curious what his reasoning is, even if it ends up being crazy talk, as I see nothing but good in this bill.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Sunday, December 23, 2007 @ 12:40 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This article on the BBC is about how sea cucumbers produce a protein which impairs the development of the malaria parasites. Which sounds all well in good until you find out that the solution they are seeking is to make a new class of mosquitoes.
“Ultimately, one aim of our field is to find a way of genetically engineering mosquitoes so that the malaria parasite cannot develop inside them.”
They apparently have already created a strain of mosquitoes that produce the same protein in their gut, with some success, however introducing these insects to the wild will be difficult.
“‘You would have to get the modified version to become the predominant species, and that has never been done in any setting before,’ [Dr Ron Behrens] said.”
Okay, we all know this sort of thing is the future and that it is indeed inevitable, but I can’t help being a little alarmist regarding the creation and introduction of genetically designed mosquitoes that are still interested in human blood to the world.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, August 2, 2007 @ 17:58 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
“Jellyfish with up to a dozen heads have been created in the laboratory by carefully monkeying with a few genes.” It’s all fun and games until a twelve-headed monstrosity decides to kill us all. 
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 @ 08:56 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is just an amazingly bizarre story. Due to a rare medical condition called “chimerism”, this woman essentially has two disparate strains of DNA throughout her body, a microscopic twin if you will. Before it was identified in her, the state nearly succeeding in taking away her children and bringing her up on criminal charges when a standard test for welfare assistance indicated that her children’s DNA did not match her own.
In this weird world we live in, this goes to show the foolhardiness in putting absolute trust in any procedure or test.
Chapter 18: A Handful of Nothing - How to Disappear Completely by Myke Bartlett
Buzz Out Loud 884: Hormonal beef by cnet.com
TWiT 176: The Fat Middle by Leo Laporte and the TWiTs
Leeds United by Amanda Palmer
Leeds United by Amanda Palmer
