Schedule and Readings
Thursday, 24 Feb:
New readings for next week will be posted by Friday.
Slides
The slides from the 21 February class are here: class11.pdf
Links
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Wladyslaw Altermann, Józef Kazmierczak. Archean microfossils: a reappraisal of early life on Earth (Describes fossils of life from over 3.4 Billion years ago.)
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Anja Spang, Courtney W. Stairs, Nina Dombrowski, Laura Eme, Jonathan Lombard, Eva F. Caceres, Chris Greening, Brett J. Baker and Thijs J. G. Ettema. Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism. Nature Microbiology, July 2019.
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The best recorded lectures I found on Recombinant DNA are MIT’s 7.01 course (Eric Lander), starting with Overview of Recombinant DNA, excerpt 1 | MIT 7.01SC Fundamentals of Biology.
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Pavan Umate, Narendra Tuteja and Renu Tuteja. Genome-wide comprehensive analysis of human helicases. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 2011.
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Patent for recombinant DNA: Process for Producing Biologically Functional Molecular Chimeras (Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer, 1974). Rajendra Bera, The story of the Cohen-Boyer patents, Current Science, March 2009.
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Paul Berg, David Baltimore, Herbert W. Boyer, Stanley N. Cohen, Ronald W. Davis, David S. Hogness, Daniel Nathans, Richard Roblin, James D. Watson, Sherman Weissman, Norton D. Zinder. Potential Biohazards of Recombinant DNA Molecules. Science, 1974.
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Asilomar AI Principles (2017).