Biodiversity, Life on Earth

Your RL Environment

The earth is home to around 10 million described forms of life and biologists estimate the total amount of different species at about 40 million species. Importantly, variation in environment leads to an uneven distribution of these species on the planet. Think of how humans tend to cluster within cities many of which are near […]

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“Ultra Deep Science Drill Ship”

Abyss Observatory in Japan Open Grid

Photo: JAMSTEC Where? Abyss Observatory in JOGrid (OpenSim) Enable your OpenSim access here hop://jogrid.net:8002/Abyss Observatory/491/302/140 Who? Hajime Nishimura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC),           Yan Lauria, Museum director of Abyss Observatory in SL/OpenSim   Abstract: I was working on development of ultra deep science drill ship “Chikyu” (“the Earth” in English) from 2001 […]

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Gene Editing

Auditorium

Monthly panel discussion, this week “Gene Editing” It has been an eventful year for CRISPR gene editing technology. Come join our expert biologist panelists for a discussion of the year in genome modification. After a brief overview of the technology, we will discuss some of the highlight gene edits and their purpose, the end of […]

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Biodiversity, Life on Earth

Your RL Environment

The earth is home to around 10 million described forms of life and biologists estimate the total amount of different species at about 40 million species. Importantly, variation in environment leads to an uneven distribution of these species on the planet. Think of how humans tend to cluster within cities many of which are near […]

Free

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