Transgenics: A new breed

NetSpeakWrite: A New Breed of Communication

Amy Paterson, originally from New Brunswick, is currently enduring enjoying her first year of Dalhousie University’s MLIS program. She has a previous BA from St. Thomas University and an MA from Simon Fraser University in English Literature. She is extremely interested in the role of libraries in education and hopes to be a writer and a school librarian. This paper was originally written as par...

Birth of a new breed of supertaster.

People differ in the intensity of their reported experience of taste but the origins of these differences, whether they generalize to some or all chemosensory stimuli, and the most accurate way to measure them are controversial. In this issue of Chemical Senses, Lim et al. address the question of the general nature of perceived intensity and report that a subject’s response to the bitter chemic...

A new breed of parasuicide patient.

Twitter: A new breed of social networking

In the form of a different type of communication and different relationships motivated by not so common reasons, microblogging has come to set a new trend on social networks. Twitter.com, founded on March 2006, was the obvious choice as it is the leading microblogging platform around. In a immersive ethnographic study performed there, I've analyzed this new breed of relationships and communicat...

Algal Transgenics and Biotechnology

Transgenesis in algae is a complex and fast-growing technology. Selectable marker genes, promoters, reporter genes, transformation techniques, and other genetic tools and methods are already available for various species and currently ~25 species are accessible to genetic transformation. Fortunately, large-scale sequencing projects are also planned, in progress, or completed for several of thes...