http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/2010-the-best-in-science Powered by Webshore Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/2010-the-best-in-science#comment-2315 gayatri Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:12:20 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=1813#comment-2315 this is a milestone in the history of biology,the need of biofuels is going to be incresed by the near future,certainly the synthetic genome is the answer!! this is a milestone in the history of biology,the need of biofuels is going to be incresed by the near future,certainly the synthetic genome is the answer!!

]]> http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/2010-the-best-in-science#comment-2269 M.Sriram Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:56:59 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=1813#comment-2269 crisp! crisp!

]]> http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/2010-the-best-in-science#comment-2264 Anjali Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:47:37 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=1813#comment-2264 Exciting and informative :) Exciting and informative

]]> http://www.criticaltwenties.in/sciencetechnology/2010-the-best-in-science#comment-2263 Aritra Wed, 29 Dec 2010 11:41:05 +0000 http://www.criticaltwenties.in/?p=1813#comment-2263 Well that was a very crisp and informative piece regarding the scientific milestones of this year(considering that we still have 2 days left!!!) Being a student of biology, at times I really ponder over some of the "achievements" that scientists(in this case; Biologists) are banking upon ! The idea of a synthetic genome is indeed awe-inspiring but somewhere we are missing a very crucial point....we are behaving like a small kid who solves a small part of a larger puzzle and is happy. What the child fails to understand whether that solved part would ever fit into the bigger picture!!! What I'm trying to say is that we should always think that how our work would help us in the better understanding of the system, rather than creating something new and trying to fit it in the existing one; unsure of whether that would be fruitful! Past failures in many of such biotechnological endeavors only keep us reminding of one basic thing.....that picking up one/few gene(s), modifying it and expecting that the new function would be advantageous, is a foolish mistake! As a very renowned cytogeneticist from our country Prof. S.C Lakhotia puts this idea in words....."genes don't work in isolation, to think of that would be no longer genetics but BEANBAG genetics....its like picking up a single bean from a bag, crushing it and putting it back in...doesn't make any difference, but in case of organisms this doesn't hold true. Altering the function of one single gene might end up disturbing the entire network....as genes don't work in isolation!!! Wishing the whole team of critical twenties a very happy new year. Well that was a very crisp and informative piece regarding the scientific milestones of this year(considering that we still have 2 days left!!!)
Being a student of biology, at times I really ponder over some of the “achievements” that scientists(in this case; Biologists) are banking upon ! The idea of a synthetic genome is indeed awe-inspiring but somewhere we are missing a very crucial point….we are behaving like a small kid who solves a small part of a larger puzzle and is happy. What the child fails to understand whether that solved part would ever fit into the bigger picture!!!
What I’m trying to say is that we should always think that how our work would help us in the better understanding of the system, rather than creating something new and trying to fit it in the existing one; unsure of whether that would be fruitful!
Past failures in many of such biotechnological endeavors only keep us reminding of one basic thing…..that picking up one/few gene(s), modifying it and expecting that the new function would be advantageous, is a foolish mistake!
As a very renowned cytogeneticist from our country Prof. S.C Lakhotia puts this idea in words…..”genes don’t work in isolation, to think of that would be no longer genetics but BEANBAG genetics….its like picking up a single bean from a bag, crushing it and putting it back in…doesn’t make any difference, but in case of organisms this doesn’t hold true. Altering the function of one single gene might end up disturbing the entire network….as genes don’t work in isolation!!!
Wishing the whole team of critical twenties a very happy new year.

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