Tuesday, July 7, 2009

What came first, the chicken or the...T-Rex?

This months Wired has an interesting article on the battle between biologists and geneticists when in comes to interpreting genetic information found in fossils. Apparently, a biologist had discovered that once run through a mass spectrometer, T-Rex collagen had matched the collagen present in chickens, and had an article published in Science magazine with his discovery. This lead to a huge uproar from people in the field of bioinformatics who said that Asara's paper did not include enough statistical data to back up his claim. Who knew there could be so much drama in science? I wont ruin the ending, but the story is great, and people are arguing its giving a lot of credibility to the field of bioinformatics. Read it here. [Article]

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