Body-clock gene reveals sleep cycles with just a pluck, study says

When the researchers tested the genes in the subjects’ follicles, they found that body-clock gene activity peaked right after a subject had woken up, regardless of whether it was 6 a.m. or 10 a.m.

This suggests that the brain “turns on” the genes at different times of the morning in different people.

Other clock genes followed similar patterns, making it possible to predict “morning people” with just a pluck, the study said.

To make the synthetic cell, a team of 25 researchers at labs in Rockville, Md., and San Diego, Calif., led by bioengineer Daniel Gibson and Dr. Venter essentially turned computer code into a new life form. They started with a species of bacteria called Mycoplasma capricolum and, by replacing its genome with one they wrote themselves, turned it into a customized variant of a second species called Mycoplasma mycoides, they reported.

Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint accusing a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica and its chef of serving whale meat, a violation of the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.

and if it could get worse, the restaurant was selling a Sei whale, an ENDANGERED species, meat