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scientist 36: the research biotechnologist – Alan Tunnacliffe & the bdelloid rotifer (2013)
Professor Alan Tunnacliffe of the Cambridge University Department of Chemical Engineering tells why the bdelloid rotifer has fascinated top biologists. This microscopically tiny invertebrate lives in rain puddles. The creature can survive without water for millions of years, and by now really ought to be extinct. Our scientist tells why it isn’t and how it manages its DNA.
Follow-up link:
To learn more: ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/bdelloid-rotifers.html.
PLoS Genetics: www.plosgenetics.org/doi/pgen.1003035
ScienceNow: news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/bdelloids-surviving-on-borrowed-.html?ref=hp
Dept of Chemical Engineering and biology
www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news.php/233/a-tenth-of-quirky-creatureas-active-genes-are-foreign
23/02/2013
tagged: Chris Creese, DNA, health, Roger Frost, rotifer, science education
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Professor Alan Tunnacliffe of the Cambridge University Department of Chemical Engineering tells why the bdelloid rotifer has fascinated top biologists. This microscopically tiny invertebrate lives in rain puddles. The creature can survive without water for millions of years, and by now really ought to be extinct. Our scientist tells why it isn’t and how it manages its DNA.
Follow-up link:
To learn more: ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/bdelloid-rotifers.html.
PLoS Genetics: www.plosgenetics.org/doi/pgen.1003035
ScienceNow: news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/bdelloids-surviving-on-borrowed-.html?ref=hp
Dept of Chemical Engineering and biology
www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/news.php/233/a-tenth-of-quirky-creatureas-active-genes-are-foreign
23/02/2013
tagged: Chris Creese, DNA, health, Roger Frost, rotifer, science education