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Biology concepts – hydrogenosome, FeS cluster protein, loricifera, erythrocyte More than one way to skin a cat seems to be a newer versi... -
Lab Times is a magazine that reports on news for life scientists in Europe. Their current issue (Sept. 14, 2011) has an "analysis... -
My next door neighbor used to be the chair of the Immunology Department but Immunology recently moved to another floor of this building. The... -
As someone interested in linguistic recursion, I gotta join in... the below blog post has been getting a fair amount of attention around the...
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Many proteins bind to double-stranded DNA and most of them bind specifically to a particular target site. The lac repressor, for example, b... -
Biology concepts – fever, infectious disease, sexually transmitted disease, innate immune system Would you be willing to be a human guinea... -
I claim that the top three criteria for good science reporting are: Accuracy, Accuracy, and Accuracy. Everything else falls into fourth plac... -
I met many interesting people at Eschaton 2012 in Ottawa. One of them was Ian Cromwell who gave a talk about racism on Sunday morning. Ian ... -
Biology Concepts – pollen, plastid inheritance, gymnosperms, angiosperms I am coming to believe that plants are more complex than animals, e... -
I just heard from Dave Greig that Richard Harter died over a month ago [ Richard Harter 1935 - 2012 ]. He was a long time contributor to tal...