Bacterial Evolution at Georgia Tech 8-11-2012 by Paul Giem
Channel: ItIsAboutGod
Date: 12/08/2012

An announcement from Georgia Institute of Technology discusses the evolution of a "500-million-year-old gene" that was "resurrected" and placed in a bacterium.  We discuss what this "resurrection" is, how the data fit in with various models of origins, and how to read scientific announcements.

References:
1.  http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=138621
2.  Gaucher EA, Govindarajan S, Ganesh OK.  Palaeotemperature trend for Precambrian life inferred from resurrected proteins.  Nature 2008;451:704-8.
3.  http://isotope.colorado.edu/~geol5700/Gouy%20and%20Chaussidon%202008.pdf