I wish everyone has a wonderful Christmas celebration and I hope DNAmazing will be able to spread information about DNA technology including DNA testing for many years to come.
Today’s DNAmazing Christmas Special is – Back to the Past, and the year was 2007, I wrote a short post about Dating by DNA.
An interesting talk by Daniel Rokhsar – a biologist, physicist, poet and programmer about what’s beyond the human genome from ‘Berkeley Lab Summer Lecture Series 2003′. Total length of this clip is 57:50.
Things you’ll learn from this clip:
A brief introduction about DNA sequencing.
His contribution of the sequences for three of the human body’s chromosomes in the effort to decipher the blueprint of life.
The structure and function of genes in other organisms
If you have watched TED presentation by Nobel Prize winner – James Watson, the co-founder of the DNA model; his discovery would not be started if the structure of DNA was not discovered in the year 1869.
Thankfully, back then, there was a science named Friedrich Miescher, who had spent his days in the lab in which located in the kitchen (as shown in the thumbnail above) studying biochemical nature of life using leukocytes he isolated from the pus on surgical bandages. Less people know that he’s the one who discovered nuclein – it is a nuclear material that is currently known as DNA.
