Friday, September 17, 2010

Florida State: A-maize-ing DNA research

"Two ears of buttered corn lie on a plate. Inspect them for just a few seconds, and you’d find some telltale bump or abnormality to tell them apart.

If they came from the same kind of seed with the same genetic material, why don’t they look exactly the same?

Scientists still don’t know why cells with the same genome can have different traits. But that’s the puzzle that Florida State University and Florida A&M University biologists are ...."

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/health/2010/09/14/florida-state-a-maize-ing-dna-research/

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