les nouvelles

Tough times prompt transgender job fair in L.A.

I learned in college that transgender people have the highest unemployment rate of any minority. Obviously, even gay people have SO many issued about gender... internalized homophobia.

NASA: Spacewalkers ready space station for new module

Human laughter likely evolved from apes

Experts: Bat fungus causing historic decline

Scientists find more dinosaur bones at Utah quarry

greening of Mars continued

SO, I guess it wouldn't matter if mutations occurred at frequency/time if there were enough geneticists sampling current populations of the organism frequently enough to catch any potential mutations that could enable the extremophile to colonize tissues...

the greening of Mars continued

Today I was thinking about the potential problems a genetically engineered lichen could pose to humans, from a human health standpoint.

Long story in cleaning out lots of moldy shit from the fridge. I'd have to go ahead and assume that since the organism would be such extremophile to cold temps (low O2 concentrations) perhaps in this case a 98.6 deg temp would be an even larger asset, allowing for complete resistance to infection and/or colonization; until eventual mutations which occur @ frequency/time.

Mycology would be such a fun field of research...