#geneticist — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/snakes-lack-hunger-hormone-ghrelin
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Saw the short sentence, "Genetics happens randomly."
Any #Geneticist / #Biologist like to comment?
(Do we need a #Grammartist too to save civilization?)
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A Multitalented Scientist Seeks the Origins of Multicellularity https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-multitalented-scientist-seeks-the-origins-of-multicellularity-20240221/
"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."
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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