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  1. Some #snakes lack the ‘#hunger #hormone.’ Experts are hungry to know why
    The #gene for #ghrelin is missing in serpents, yet present in other fasting #reptiles
    Evolutionary #geneticist Rui Pinto and colleagues stumbled on the discovery when comparing the #genomes of 112 reptile species, including snakes, crocodiles and chameleons, which they obtained from public database. Genes for ghrelin and its activating enzyme were absent in 32 snake species.
    sciencenews.org/article/snakes
    archive.ph/WvOHr

  2. Saw the short sentence, "Genetics happens randomly."

    Any #Geneticist / #Biologist like to comment?

    (Do we need a #Grammartist too to save civilization?)

    #Evolution #Biochemistry

  3. A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity quantamagazine.org/a-multitale

    "The #geneticist Cassandra Extavour became the first Black woman to receive tenure in the biological sciences at #Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her studies of reproductive cells yield insights into the origins of #multicellularity."

  4. Physicists Hertha Ayrton, Lise Meitner & Harriet Brooks
    #geologist Alice Wilson
    Mathematician Emmy Noether
    #seismologist Inge Lehmann
    Pharmaceutical chemist Alice Ball
    Botanist Janaki Ammal
    #astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
    #computerSci Grace Hopper
    Mathematician Mary Golda Ross
    Physicist Chien-shiung Wu
    #inventor Hedy Lamarr
    #phycologist Isabella Aiona Abbott
    #geneticist Irene Ayako Uchida
    Crystallographer Rosalind Franklin
    Marine geologist Marie Tharp
    Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly