The Left Handed DNA Hall of Fame

- Tom Schneider The Left handed DNA Hall of Fame has moved. Please note the NEW LOCATION: http://www.fred.net/tds/leftdna/

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2013

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Our Story So Far: The story line, if you have not had time to follow the previous 782 or so entries (!) is my slow realization that earth is being invaded by left handed DNA people ... NOTE: I am currently NOT adding entries with images - too much else to do!! Please enjoy a visit to my web site and read my papers.


1. The Creationist Community's Photos includes a Left Handed DNA. If real scientists can publish an incorrect image in major scientific journals, then this is impetus to those who use science all the time but deny its results to keep up! First reported on 2013 Feb 24, as of 2013 Feb 24 (Thanks to John S. Garavelli for pointing this one out!)
   
2. InViVo Communications illustrates the invasion of Left Handed DNA in lovely images. You can wait for it to cycle through to the image or you can look at it directly. First reported on 2013 Feb 27, as of 2013 Feb 27 (Thanks to Steve Shane, shane_steve at hotmail.com for pointing this one out!)
   
3. The theme of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting of 2013 is "Building Bridges to Conquer Right Handed DNA People". First reported on 2013 Mar 28, as of 2013 Mar 30 (Thanks to Grant Eilers for pointing this one out!)
   
   
4. The new book Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality Book propagates the myth that DNA is left handed. Priceless!

   Facebook page for discussion

   First reported on 2013 Jun 01, as of 2013 Jun 01
   
5. Nature 2007: 447,655 First reported on 2013 Jun 26, as of 2013 Jun 26 (Thanks to Robert Ziman for pointing this one out!)
   
6. Cover of Nature Methods July 2013, Volume 10 No 7 pp591-682 First reported on 2013 Jul 06, as of 2013 Jul 06
   
7. PLOS Computational Biology cover (Table of Contents: June 2013) First reported on 2013 Jul 13, as of 2013 Jul 13 (Thanks to Robert Place, for pointing this one out!)
   
8. Nature Subject Area has had a section on Left Handed DNA since Aug 8 2007! (That's the date of the image for "Life Sciences".) First reported on 2013 Aug 14, as of 2013 Aug 14 (Thanks to Robert Place for pointing this one out!)
   
9. A book on diseases caused by organisms with Left Handed DNA: Microbiology with Diseases by Taxonomy: Pearson New International Edition First reported on 2013 Sep 11, as of 2013 Oct 09 (Thanks to Keith Spriggs, Keith.Spriggs@nottingham.ac.uk, for pointing this one out!)
   
10. Otogenetics will sequence left handed DNA for you. First reported on 2013 Aug 02, as of 2013 Oct 10 (Thanks to an anonymous tip from Dornfield for pointing this one out!)
    
11. Sequencing the Left Handed Tuatara Genome First reported on 2013 Jul 10, as of 2013 Oct 12 (Thanks to Martin Hafner, mhafner0@uni-koeln.de for pointing this one out!)
    
12. Technology Networks First reported on 2013 Nov 11, as of 2013 Nov 11 (Thanks to an anonynomous 'donor' 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?

Tom Schneider.

updated: 2023Sep20_18:45:31