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Yet another topic that doesn’t get nearly enough love on IA, so may have seen a couple of these stories before:

• Japanese scientists reconstruct visual images from brain data.
• How viruses work the (very educational) movie
• 2001-like nut cracking monkies
• Flying fish from the BBC’s Blue Planet
• An amazing elastic jawed fish

• W has signed a the Genetic Non-discrimination Act into law. Probably one of maybe two or three things that he’s done that I actually agree with…
• A panacea for fuel creation, a silocon valley startup called LS9 has managed to get bacteria to output biofuel. The big question is can it scale-up to the demand and is it commercially viable.
• A leading evolutionary biologist suggests that lack of older (+35) fathers has ground human evolution to a halt.
• Can cells control their own evolution? Evidence from Princeton suggests that they can.
• Data from the first 10 volunteers from the Personal Genenome Project have been sequenced and are available for all who have the time and energy to look at it.

• Stem-cells are the holy grail of a lot of genetic works, according to this story common skin-cells have been transformed into stem-cell like cells.
• A company called 23andme has recently opened selling $999 DNA tests that can tell you about your ancestry and pre-disposition to certain diseases.
• Now you too can own your very own glow in the dark cat. Seriously.
• This is a subject I’ve often wondered about: are humans still evolving? Is our amazing health system stopping or slowing human evolution? According to a recent study, humans are evolving 100 times faster than ever before!
• For those that live in BC, there are new rules for organ donors and in order to maintain your status as an organ donor you’ll need to re-sign-up at the Transplant BC website.

• Recent developments in genetics and biology are truely staggering, check out this article on printing replacement body parts with Stem Cell ink.
• The recent find of a Mammoth’s hair reveals a DNA bounty.
• A man implanted with several different types of Stem Cells has ended up with two different sets of DNA: “If you were to do a DNA test of my blood and one from my skin, they’d be different”.
• A nice and definitely creepy looks at the weirdest insects in the world.
• Finally, controversial DNA researcher Craig Venter claims to have created synthetic chromosomes (ie artificial life) in the lab.