Neuroscientist David Edelman on Paradigm Shift (YES) and Origin of '3D Organismal Form'

Edit Huffington Post 28 Aug 2015
DAVID B. EDELMAN ... Like father like son, David Edelman has an interest in "how 3D organismal form comes about." ... His postdoctoral work was done at Scripps and NSI ... Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology ... . ... Right ... There's now a growing interest in viruses and viroids. Scientists report that roughly 10% of the human genome is inhabited by viruses, and a viroid-like entity is considered a "very good candidate" for the first replicon on Earth....

A Technical Guide for Citrus Nursery Management (MOAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Aug 2015
(Source. MOAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan). 20 August, Thimphu ... Kinley Dorji (Sr Research Officer, RDC-Bajo) and Lakey (Dy. Chief Horticulture Officer who is also the Coordinator for National Citrus Program) co-authored the book ... Huanglongbing (HLB) (also known as greening disease), powdery mildew and viral diseases such as strains of Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) and Citrus exocortis viroids, etc ... distributed by ... (noodl....

Evolution, Let's Get It Right, It's the "Basis of Everything"

Edit Huffington Post 14 Aug 2015
EVIATAR NEVO. (photo by Yanming Zhang, courtesy, E. Nevo). "Human life depends on it. Philosophically, evolution theory is the basis of all sciences. Not only biological sciences and physical and chemical sciences, but also humanistic sciences. Evolution is the basis of everything." -- E. Nevo ... Regression, Progression, and Global Convergence ... Suzan Mazur ... . ... . ... ... How does including microbes, viruses and viroids reframe the picture of evolution?....

Stopping ‘greening of citrus’ before it ripens

Edit The Times of India 27 Jul 2015
Nagpur. Greening of citrus (a disease where the fruit doesn't ripe fully and remains half green and half orange due) has begun to show its head in many parts of Andhra Pradesh and to some extent in isolated areas in Vidarbha ... Development of rapid and precise diagnostic methods using real time PCR technique for Viral (Citrus Tristeza, Exocortis viroid, Ring spot and Citrus mosaic banda virus) and Greening (Huanglongbing) pathogens ... ....

Les Membres de l’OMC soulèvent un nombre record de problèmes commerciaux concernant la sécurité sanitaire ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2015
(Source. WTO - World Trade Organization) ... European Union - approval of biotech products ... Several members noted that such a measure should also be notified to the SPS Committee ... Mexico and Guatemala raised concerns about Costa Rica's measure to temporarily suspend import certificates for avocados, due to the presence of avocado sunblotch viroid - a disease affecting avocado trees - in various avocado-producing countries ... Other matters....

WTO members raise record number of trade concerns on food safety, animal and plant health ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2015
(Source. WTO - World Trade Organization) ... European Union - approval of biotech products ... Several members noted that such a measure should also be notified to the SPS Committee ... Mexico and Guatemala raised concerns about Costa Rica's measure to temporarily suspend import certificates for avocados, due to the presence of avocado sunblotch viroid - a disease affecting avocado trees - in various avocado-producing countries ... Other matters....

Los Miembros de la OMC plantean un número sin precedentes de preocupaciones comerciales sobre inocuidad ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2015
(Source. WTO - World Trade Organization) ... European Union - approval of biotech products ... Several members noted that such a measure should also be notified to the SPS Committee ... Mexico and Guatemala raised concerns about Costa Rica's measure to temporarily suspend import certificates for avocados, due to the presence of avocado sunblotch viroid - a disease affecting avocado trees - in various avocado-producing countries ... Other matters....

SYGNIS announces global launch of TruePrimeTM RCA kit for the direct amplification of circular DNA targets (SYGNIS AG)

Edit noodls 08 Jun 2015
(Source ... LIO1; ISIN ... RCA stands for "rolling circle amplification", which refers to the ability to rapidly synthesize multiple copies of circular molecules of DNA and RNA from smallest amounts of samples such as plasmids from single bacterial colonies, liquid culture or glycerol stock as well as genomes of bacteriophages (cosmids) or the circular RNA genome of viroids ... Furthermore, these advantages include ... About TruePrimeTM....

Avocado Prices Will Soar in Costa Rica Due To Import Bans

Edit The Inquisitr 13 May 2015
Costa Rica’s State Phytosanitary Service of the Ministry of Agriculture banned imports because avocados worldwide have been afflicted with the Avocado Sunblotch Viroid, also called “sunblotch.” Included in this affliction is the Haas avocado, which is the most popular avocado in the world, according to The Tico Times ... http.//t.co/xv1dku5JIz. — FL Plant Industry (@FLPlantIndustry) May 7, 2015 ... [Image credit ... ....

The "First Replicon" on Earth? A Chat With Virologist Ricardo Flores

Edit Huffington Post 04 May 2015
Flores thinks viruses may be "the most important faction of the [planet's] biomass" and that a viroid-like entity is a prime candidate for the first replicon on Earth. Viroids are subviral world parasites, non-protein coding RNAs ... Viroids represent the smallest organisms in terms of size on the biological scale. Compared to the genome of the tobacco mosaic virus, the viroid genome is 20 times smaller....

"Growth Is Not Evolution"

Edit Huffington Post 20 Apr 2015
Watching physicist Adrian Bejan as he demonstrates how snowflakes form tells you two things. One, he's not just a scientist. The confidence and balance he projects as he draws are a give-away to his training as an artist and as an athlete. And two, that there is a certain predictability to each snowflake ... Our interview follows ... ... Some scientists, like Ricardo Flores, think a viroid-like entity may have played a role as the first replicon....

Evolutionary Science 'Stuck' on Wrong Track, Situation 'Out of Control'

Edit Huffington Post 14 Apr 2015
University of Bonn cell biologist František Baluška says evolutionary science is dangerously "stuck" on the gene-centered track and that "[t]he situation is now out of control.". Baluška, one of the world's leading experts on plant roots says further that "we [humans, animals] are really secondary organisms in relation to plants." ... Suzan Mazur ... ... What are your thoughts about a role for a virus or viroid-like entity at the start of life?....

No Boundary Really Between Genetic and Epigenetic

Edit Huffington Post 27 Mar 2015
As co-founder and director of ISIS (Institute of Science in Society), the UK-based organization focused on reclaiming science for the public good, Mae-Wan Ho, a geneticist, has for many years questioned the engineering of our food supply and addressed other biotechnology issues ... Noble wrote the following. ... The Rainbow and the Worm ... ... How does the current attention to viruses and viroids throw a further wrench into the Modern Synthesis?....
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