Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Can You Smell Isovaleric Acid?
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Isovaleric acid [ 3-Methylbutanoic acid ] smells like sweat. It is responsible for some of the odor in a locker room, for example. Althoug...
Theme: A Sense of Smell
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The detection of odor is a complex signal transduction pathway that begins with the binding of an odor molecule (ligand) to an olfactory r...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Nobel Laureate: Arthur Kornberg
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959. "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic aci...
DNA Polymerase I and the Synthesis of Okazaki Fragments
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Slightly modified from Horton et al. (2006) ... During DNA replication, a molecular machine called a replisome forms at the replication fo...
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Polyphosphate
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Monday's Molecule was polyphosphate [ Monday's Molecule #49 ]. Polyphosphate is a string of phosphate groups joined together by ph...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Wealth and Religiosity
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One of the most interesting results from the PEW Global Attitudes Survey is the correlation between wealth and belief in God. As a genera...
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Do You Have to Believe in God to Be Moral?
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From the [ PEW Global Attitudes Survey ]. Is Faith Necessary for Morality? Throughout most of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, there is ...
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What Scientific Instrument Enhances the Quality of Life for People Around the World?
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Eva, one of our own graduate students, asks this question on her blog easternblot [ Quality of Life ]. It's a multiple choice questio...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong if Everybody Has a Gun?
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The title of this article is a rip-off of Canadian Cynic [ I mean, what could possibly go wrong? ]. That article, in turn, is a response...
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Diversity and the Major Histocompatibility Complex
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A number of authors have applied this test [for homozygosity] to protein polymorphism data. In most cases, either no selection or purifyin...
DriPs and the Inefficiency of Translation
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There's been a lot of talk recently about junk DNA and the possibility that large parts of it may, after all, have a function. Some of...
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Teach the Controversy
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The latest issue of the McGill Journal of Education is devoted to the Evolution/Creationism debate. There are several interesting article...
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Another Dr. Moran!!!
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From UNC PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY WEEKLY CALENDAR : Monday, October 29 12:20 p.,m. Room 258, Phillips Hall (UNC-CH) Ph.D. Defense Jane Moran ...
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Why Do Leaves Turn Red in the Fall?
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In the Northern Hemisphere this is the time of year when the leaves of deciduous plants turn color and fall off. Why do they change color ...
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Monday's Molecule #49
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Today's molecule is very simple. You don't get any credit for just naming the molecule. There's an indirect connection between...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Where Was I?
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Today I was not too far from this place. Unfortunately I didn't have time to stop and see the drawings. Where was I?
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Where Was I?
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Today I was near this place. Where was I?
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Help Build The Beagle
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A replica of HMS Beagle is being built as part of the 2009 celebrations surrounding the 150th anniversary of the publishing of On Origins ...
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
Biochemist Arthur Kornberg (1918 - 2007)
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Arthur Kornberg died yesterday of respiratory failure. He was 89 [ Arthur Kornberg, Biochemist, Dies at 89 . Kornberg won the Nobel Prize ...
Reconstituting a Virus
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This week's citation classic from John Dennehy is Fraenkel-Conrat and Williams (1955) [ This Week's Citation Classic ]. This week&...
This Is so Sad!
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Over the past several days Sandwalk has been spammed with hundreds of comments linking to sites like those listed below. Because I can'...
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Where Am I?
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Nobel Laureate: James Batcheller Sumner
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946. "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized" In 1946, James Batcheller Sumner (1887-1...
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I Rank Number One on Google
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David Ng at The World's Fair has invented a new blogging meme [ The World's Fair exceptional "I rank number one on google&qu...
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