Genetics

Many millennia ago, man created dog. As the story goes, gray wolves in East Asia took to the comforts of human camp life somewhere between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago. People bred their new canine companions for docility and other favored traits. Along the way the dogs and wolves were bred together, making the wolves genetics somewhat similar to the dogs. They are both even missing the same three DNA.

I think this is pretty cool to know about this, and how it all happened. A couple thousand years ago this all happened and they figured it out and i think that it's good to know.



http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-02/operation-dark-wolf

Cell Biology

British scientists have discovered a way to turn female bone marrow into sperm. The scientists want to take stem cells from a woman donor's bone marrow and transform them into sperm through the use of special chemicals and vitamins. Through this process it could take out the need of a man for a woman to have a baby.

Scientists come up with new,crazy things every day. This is amazing that they could figure something out like this. I would never imagine this happening. In my opinion I think that it's just a little weird that someone would want to have a baby this way.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-511391/Death-father-British-scientists-discover-turn-womens-bone-marrow-sperm.html

Ecology

Two grad students brought up a video and some samples of a whale skeleton that they found on the bottom of the sea floor. This was the first skeleton of a whale ever to be found on the sea floor that had all the bones there. The team was near the end of a cruise on the coast of California when they found this.

I think this is really cool that they found something on the bottom of the ocean floor for the first time. I was surprised at all the sea creatures that were decomposing the whale. I think that they should be very proud of themselves for finding it.