BMSIS Scientist featured online

BMSIS Scientist Dr. Betül Kaçar’s work on re-creating ancient genes and evolving them in modern organisms has been featured in online news outlets [1] [2]! Dr. Kaçar did her work at the Georgia Tech Center for Ribosomal Origins and Evolution. Read more about Dr. Kaçar here.

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Beer with BMSIS – May 2012

The May 2012 science podcast of “Beer with BMSIS” is now available. This month, Zach Adam discusses  ” Proto-erotica: Looking for evidence of sex in 1.4 billion year old rocks, and wondering how common it is to find aliens that do it too “. Tune in for a fascinating conversation.

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BMSIS science featured in ‘Nature’ magazine

BMSIS scientist Sanjoy Som and collaborators from the University of Washington in Seattle published in ‘Nature’ a method to calculate the air density 2.7 billion years ago by measuring fossil raindrop imprints. The work, coupling experiments of falling raindrops with theoretical predictions of raindrop dynamics, allowed the scientists to constrain atmospheric density to at most 2x present levels, but rainfall statistics favor an air density more probably between 0.5x – 1.05x present levels. Read more in Extended Summary!

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