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DNA helices have a right-handed twist. You can make left-handed DNA (Z-DNA), but it doesn't spiral very well, and as far as we know, doesn't appear in nature.

E.coli has 4 genes involved in the regulation of intake and breakdown of lactose to glucose and fructose.

The guy out of Tool who does all their videos can be seen in the background of one of the Jurassic Park extras, painting a dinosaur (apparantly he's actually a special effects guy who's in Tool for fun).

Professor Harry Kroto, Nobel Prize winner for disovering another allotrope of carbon (C60, the Buckminster Fullerine Ball thing) has recently resigned from his previous post at Sussex University, and moved to America.

I have a brass goose looking at me.

A bulimic girl once died before she could regurgitate the industrial size bag of almonds she had just gorged on. Almonds contain cyanide, which incidentally gives them their typical flavour. Only 50% of people have the gene which allows them to taste cyanide (under such circumstances - if exposed to just raw HCN gas you'd pretty much be dead instantly), and apparantly several incidents have been recorded whereupon poisoning someone's food with cyanide just before they die, have been noted to say "can anyone taste almonds?". Says my old chemistry teacher.
( jme, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 11:45, Reply)