http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.html
2005
version = 1.47 of leftyear2005.html 2007 Feb 11
Our Story So Far:
The story line, if you have not had time to
follow
the
previous 608 or so entries
(!) is my slow realization that earth
is being invaded by left handed DNA people ...
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The
cover of the January 1, 2005 issue
of
LC-GC Europe
has a left handed DNA.
First reported on 2005 Jan 5,
as of 2005 Jan 28
(Thanks to
Anthony Lewis,
calewis@plymouth.ac.uk
for pointing this one out!)
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Newsweek
(January 17, 2005,
Diet and Genes
page 40)
shows how eating left handed DNA is bad for you.
Another cover link at newscom.com.
First reported on 2005 Jan 12,
as of 2005 Jan 28
(Thanks to
Adam Keen,
lucidspectre@gmail.com,
for pointing this one out and for the scan!
Tamzon has returned and gave me some useful links too.
Thanks also to
Simon J. Rhodes,
srhodes@iupui.edu
for the cover link at newscom.com.
)
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The 2003
two pound United Kingdom DNA coin
"Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Double Helix Discovery"
has a right handed DNA on its `reverse' side, but its edge is
left handed.
When they made this special coin,
nobody noticed?!
First reported on 2005 Jan 5,
as of 2005 Jan 29
(Thanks to
Gerard R. Lazo, lazo@pw.usda.gov,
for pointing this one out originally
and
C Anthony Lewis,
calewis@plymouth.ac.uk
for confirming and pointing it out again!)
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www.photoresearchers.com
has lots of left handed DNA molecule images to purchase!
Just search for 'DNA'.
First reported on 2005 Jan 31,
as of 2005 Jan 31
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WGBH
reports how intrepid researchers imported left handed DNA
from outer space and spread it all over the planet.
First reported on 2005 Jan 13,
as of 2005 Jan 31
(Thanks to
Robert Kuhn
for pointing this one out!)
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Accessible Genetics Research Ethics Education
teaches how spreading left handed DNA over the planet,
while replacing right handed DNA life forms,
is ethical (for left handed DNA forms of course).
First reported on 2005 Jan 26,
as of 2005 Jan 31
(Thanks to
Jan A. Witkowski,
witkowsk@cshl.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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The
National Parkinson Foundation
announced that Parkinson can be treated with left handed DNA.
I'm not sure that's right ...
The image comes from
Gettyimages.com search for "DNA".
Left handed images are:
200152554-001
ab20108
200152555-001
ab16156
bol00497
10188532
866460-002
dv1103044 (twist changes as it passes behind the people!)
AA048848 (the first one reported)
bc7251-001 (conflicting twists)
ab13802
10181758
bb8030-001
ab28493
ab04071
ab04070
10180859
ab03785
10178416
10169287
fas045
fas044
fas043
fas042
fas041
CC000786 (previously noted, never corrected!)
CC000767 (previously noted, never corrected!)
brxbxp37974 (conflicting twists)
brxbxp38024 (conflicting twists)
First reported on 2005 Feb 4,
as of 2005 Feb 7
(Thanks to
Stephen Lee,
leesl@compuserve.com,
for pointing this one out!)
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The book
Living with Our Genes: Why They Matter More Than You Think:
The Groundbreaking Book About the Science of Personality,
Behavior, and Genetic Destiny
by Dean H. Hamer and Peter Copeland
describes the history of the left handed DNA take over.
In a nutshell, our Genetic Destiny is to be left handed DNA people.
First reported on 2005 Feb 7,
as of 2005 Feb 7
(Thanks to
Rob Place,
for pointing this one out!)
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The
Molecular Biophoysics Group
at Delft University of Technology
has a large set of totally cool nanotechnology
projects,
including
analysis of left handed DNA in nanochannels.
First reported on 2005 Feb 8,
as of 2005 Feb 8
(Thanks to
an unnamed person
for pointing this one out!)
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Stress-induced structural transitions in DNA and proteins
by
Strick TR, Allemand JF, Bensimon D, Croquette V.
(Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct. 2000;29:523-43, 2000)
shows how one can pull apart left handed bacteriophage lambda DNA
(Figure 8).
First reported on 2005 Feb 10,
as of 2005 Feb 10
(Thanks to
Andrey Cherstvy,
a.cherstvy@fz-juelich.de,
for pointing this one out!)
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Boehringer-Ingelheim
will make you
left handed pDNA
(see also their
biopharmaceuticals page).
Who would have guessed that pDNA, which has a protein
backbone instead of sugars and phosphates,
twists to the left?
Maybe this explains its strong hybridization:
it arm wrestles with regular DNA?
But if two people arm wrestle, one with the left arm
and the other with the right, they both win instantly!
Yup, that explains the strong hybridization.
But no, alas, in this case pDNA does not stand for Protein DNA,
it stands for "pharmaceutical grade plasmid DNA".
They will make you 4000 liters of pure left handed DNA!
First reported on 2005 Feb 17,
as of 2005 Feb 20
(Thanks to
Timothy Pratt,
tsp1665@yahoo.com,
for pointing this one out!)
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The Tech Museum of Innovation
has invented a new form of metalic coated left handed DNA
for their
Understanding Genetics online exhibition
First reported on 2005 Mar 12,
as of 2005 Mar 12.
2005 Apr 25: The image will be corrected!
2006 Jan 9: The image was corrected!
(Thanks to
Jim Lissemore,
jlissemore@jcu.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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The DNA picture collection
has left handed DNAs
at numbers 6, 8 and 20,
counting from left to right and from top to bottom.
No source is given for the images.
Email to i.laros@ato.dlo.nl fails:
"Recipient address rejected: No Such User".
First reported on 2005 Apr 14,
as of 2005 Apr 14
(Thanks to
cherstvy MPI,
cherstvy@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
for pointing this one out!)
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At
a few pictures of the DNA molecule
numbers
15,
26,
27 (Z DNA?),
48,
50,
68,
69 (dead link to Synthetic Genetics),
79,
are left handed.
No source is given for most images.
Email to i.laros@ato.dlo.nl fails:
"Recipient address rejected: No Such User".
First reported on 2005 Apr 14,
as of 2005 Apr 14
(Thanks to
cherstvy MPI,
cherstvy@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
for pointing this one out!)
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I can't handle all of these found by Cherstvy!
First reported on 2005 Apr 18,
as of 2005 Apr 18
(Thanks to
cherstvy MPI,
cherstvy@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
for pointing these out!)
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The Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society
First reported on 2005 Apr 25,
as of 2005 Apr 25
(Thanks to
Jan A. Witkowski,
witkowsk@cshl.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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The Crossroads section of the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(2005 April 17)
shows artwork by Gary Markstein containing Darwin, an ape,
the earth and a left handed DNA
with the title "Evolution of a theory?"
I'm not sure what the message here is except perhaps that
perhaps they are now admitting that
all of the species on the planet are being replaced
with ones that have left handed DNA.
The article is:
The separation of fact and faith.
Call it intelligent design, but it's nothing more than religious creationism.
by Alan I. Leshner.
First reported on 2005 Apr 24,
as of 2005 May 16
(Thanks to
Carol Smith,
humanist@ameritech.net,
for pointing this one out!)
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Rafa Maldonado
has made a lovely collection of
Genetic Stamps
and discovered that one of them shows left handed DNA.
The official stamp society has the same stamp:
Federazione fra le Società Filateliche Italiane
First reported on 2005 May 19,
as of 2005 May 20
(Thanks to
Rafael D. Maldonado,
rmaldonado@ua.es
for pointing this one out!)
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© The Nobel Foundation
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Headline news:
First reported on 2005 May 25,
as of 2005 May 25
(Thanks to
Andrey Cherstvy,
cherstvy@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de,
for pointing this one out!)
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Filatelila y Genetica
has another left handed stamp from Canada.
First reported on 2005 May 25,
as of 2005 May 25
(Thanks to
Rafael D. Maldonado,
rmaldonado@ua.es
for pointing this one out!)
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Reality not hype: the new genetics in primary care
is a report
from
a meeting organzied by
London IDEAS Genetics Knowledge Park
(30 January 2004 conference report, download the big PDF)
that shows that the left handed DNA invasion
is nearly complete. It is not hype. It is real.
It is about 'the new genetics'.
(There are only a few of you left with right handed DNA.
Don't worry, I won't tell them who you are. Yet.)
[Note: London IDEAS recognized the error after several hundred
copies of the booklet were printed.
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First reported on 2005 Jun 8,
as of 2005 Jun 8
(Thanks to
an anonymous tipster
for pointing this one out!)
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If you want to figure out possible DNA for a given protein,
you need to make sure that the DNA is left handed.
A tool for doing this is
BBOCUS,
BackTranslation Based on Codon Usage Strategy,
at the University of Catania & New York University.
(The image is
an oldie but goodie found previously at
number 383 of the whole set
and
in 2001, number 48.)
First reported on 2005 Jun 24,
as of 2005 Jun 24
(Thanks to
Ilya Lyakhov,
lyakhovi@ncifcrf.gov,
for pointing this one out!)
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National Science Teachers Association
has decided that when you go to College,
it is time to learn the left-handed facts of life.
To emphasize this goal,
a second image is at
The College Science Classroom.
(Note: This is a stock photo that many people use.)
First reported on 2005 Jun 25,
as of 2005 Jun 26.
2005 Jun 27:
Tim Weber,
Director, NSTA Website,
points out:
"BTW, your visitors may become confused or disoriented if they click
on the NSTA links in your listing - by some miracle the DNA on those
NSTA web pages has become right-handed."
(Thanks to
an anonymous reader,
for pointing this one out!
They said
"Thanks for making the compilation. It's quite surprising.")
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istockphoto.com will sell you elegant pictures of left handed DNA.
There is no market for right handed images anymore, so don't even ask.
First reported on 2005 Jun 25,
as of 2005 Jun 26
(Thanks to
Jorge Porchile,
porchile@speedy.com.ar,
for pointing this one out!
He said
"I am a biologist and I was looking for
genetics material and i found your page, it`s great.")
2005 Jun 28: I did the obligatory
search for DNA at istockphoto.com
and found:
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Forensic Left-Hand DNA Typing:
Biology, Technology, and Genetics of STR Markers
by
John M. Butler
teaches how to use DNA technology to catch criminals.
Fortunately there is no section on how to characterize
samples from right-handed DNA people
so the remaining few right-handed DNA folks left will
be able to escape notice a little longer ...
Dr. Higgins points out that
"right handed people don't have to worry about leaving
incriminating traces".
(An alternative link is at the
Short Tandem Repeat DNA Internet DataBase)
as of 2005 Jun 28
(Thanks to
Scott Higgins,
for pointing this one out!)
(Cover image reprinted from
FORENSIC DNA TYPING, 2005, Butler et al ed,
ISBN 0121479528,
with permission from Elsevier.)
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Bioinformatics computing:
The complete, practical guide to bioinformatics for left hand life
scientists,
a book by
Bryan Bergeron
(Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 0131008250)
shows how to do computations when the one's and zero's in your
computer are left handed and the letters are backwards.
First reported on 2005 Jul 11,
as of 2005 Jul 11
(Thanks to
b0b kuhn
for pointing this one out!)
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Liberation Biology
by Ronald Bailey
(Prometheus Books, 2005),
is the first book about the "liberation" that has occured
in which left-handed DNA people took over the earth.
First reported on 2005 Jul 21,
as of 2005 Jul 21
(Thanks to
Eiso AB,
eiso@nmr.chem.uu.nl
for pointing this one out!)
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Educational Video Network, Inc.
is selling a flim
to teach kids in grades 7-12 about left handed DNA.
All of their products are left handed!
GPN educational media is also selling the film.
First reported on 2005 Aug 16,
as of 2005 Aug 16
(Thanks to
an anonymous lefter
for pointing this one out!)
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Bioètica: Des de les biotecnologies
describes ethical issues of having left handed DNA.
First reported on 2005 Aug 16,
as of 2005 Aug 16
(Thanks to
Eiso AB,
eiso@nmr.chem.uu.nl
for pointing this one out!)
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Understanding the pattern of life
by
Todd Charles Wood, Kurt P. Wise and Megan J. Murray
(see
the cover in more detail)
is a book about a religious concept,
baraminology.
They say in the introduction that
"Barminology is a creationist method of biosystematics"
and in the book
they explain the creation of all of the left handed
DNA organisms on earth.
(Note: there are none.)
First reported on 2005 Aug 21,
as of 2005 Aug 21
(Thanks to
Jan A. Witkowski,
witkowsk@cshl.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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Elaine Bell
writes in
Nature Immunology
(Nature Reviews Immunology 5: 587, 2005)
about
"Tattoos that your mother will like",
showing a DNA tattoo on someone's arm.
Your mother will only like it if both of you
have left handed DNA of course.
Or maybe you could use it to hide out?
First reported on 2005 Aug 22,
as of 2005 Aug 22
(Thanks to
Caroline Dijckmeester,
carolinedijckmeester@yahoo.com,
for pointing this one out!)
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The cover of
Plant Physiology
(June 2005; Volume 138, Issue 2,
was created
by Ms. Jocelyn Brimo, University of California, Riverside
using an image provided by the U.S. Department of Energy)
celebrates the discovery that the Arabidopsis genome contains left
handed DNA.
(Plant Physiology is Copyright (c) 2005 by the American Society of Plant
Biologists.)
First reported on 2005 Aug 31,
as of 2005 Aug 31
(Thanks to
Shu Ouyang,
souyang@tigr.ORG,
for pointing this one out!)
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nasty bug in Mozilla.
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The Troy students are back again, hunting down those
left handed rascals!
DNA art by
www.fotos-und-grafik.de
First reported on 2005 Sep 13,
as of 2005 Sep 13
(Thanks to
Allison Chancellor,
achancellor@troy.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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The
Escola Secundária Anselmo de Andrade
seems to have had a science fair or biotechnology display
with a left handed
DNA
underneath
a larger cool
Chromossoma.
First reported on 2005 Sep 13,
as of 2005 Sep 13
(Thanks to
Allison Chancellor,
achancellor@troy.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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nasty bug in Mozilla.
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The Facts On File Dictionary of Biochemistry
defines all of the terms used for understanding Lefthanded DNA.
First reported on 2005 Sep 20,
as of 2005 Sep 20
(Thanks to
b0b kuhn
for pointing this one out!)
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BecomeHealthyNow.com
has a glossary of terms
which shows that
you can be more healthy if you switch to left handed DNA.
First reported on 2005 Sep 23,
as of 2005 Sep 23
(Thanks to
Patrick Nelson,
pnelson33310@troy.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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Our hot anonymous sleuth reports a slew of left handed DNA images:
"Evidently
turbosquid.com
specializes in selling digital 3D models for
download. Amazingly enough, I'd say 80% of them are left-handed. I got
sick of it, but here are a bunch: page, then image(s)."
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LH-DNA
Three of the five featured images are left-handed, two right-handed.
Supposedly from the same 3d model?
Left-handed ones are:
LH-DNA
LH-DNA
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
Four left-handed images, of which this is one:
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
Four left-handed images, of which this is one:
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
Four left-handed images, of which this is one:
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
Three left-handed images, of which this is one:
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
Two images, one ambiguous, this one definitely LH:
LH-DNA
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LH-DNA
has a bizarre "X chromosome" with one RH double helix and one LH in:
LH-DNA
They also appear in a couple of the others.
First reported on 2005 Oct 1,
as of 2005 Oct 1
(Thanks to
an anonymous contributor
for pointing this one out!)
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http://jkweb.berkeley.edu/external/pdb/2001/clamp_wrench/summary.html
First reported on 2005 Oct 3,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
Rob
for pointing this one out!)
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Nature Reviews
First reported on 2005 Oct 5,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
David Barton,
National Centre for Medical Genetics, Ireland,
for pointing this one out!)
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September 2005 cover of Nature Genetics
(Vol 37 No 9)
First reported on 2005 Oct 30,
as of 2007 Feb 11,
(Thanks to
Constantin Polychronakos,
constantin.polychronakos@mcgill.ca,
for pointing this one out!)
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www.delta-education.com
First reported on 2005 Nov 4,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
Bob Estes,
estes@onscreen-sci.com,
for pointing this one out!)
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Dubai Medical Lab
First reported on 2005 Dec 5,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
Matt Prekupec,
prekmatt@hotmail.com,
for pointing this one out!)
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Family Tree DNA
First reported on 2005 Dec 21,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
Gwen Acton,
gwen.acton@verizon.net,
for pointing this one out!)
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IL Science and Technology Park
First reported on 2005 Dec 23,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
Dylan Cooper,
dbc63b@mizzou.edu,
for pointing this one out!)
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How Stuff Works -
How DNA Computers Will Work by Kevin Bonsor
First reported on 2005 Dec 23,
as of 2007 Feb 11
(Thanks to
Aaron Engelhart,
aaron.engelhart@gmail.com,
for pointing this one out!)
For your first visit to the
Left Handed
Hall of Fame
page I suggest that you follow the story
over all of the years.
After that you can look at each year individually
from the table below.
Note: just because a year has gone by does not mean
we haven't found more examples for that year!
1997 and 1998 were bumper crop years
and 1999 beat them more than 2 fold.
2000 was a record year, thanks to help from
friends around the world
(60 of the 97 cases, 63%!).
2001 exceeded even that record!
2002 was lower - are we making headway?
Schneider Lab.
updated:
2009Jan09.14:32:43