Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Pictures of Paris
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The church is St. Germain des Prés. It's just a few blocks from where we're staying.
Are Brussel Sprouts Bad for You?
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Probably not, and that's a good thing because I like Brussel sprouts. They may be OK for humans but they're bad for aphids [ Eat u...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
An IDiot Software Developer Opines About Junk DNA
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Randy "I want to believe" Stimpson is a software developer who thinks he understands biology. He has written a post where he cla...
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La Tour Eiffel
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These are my pictures of the Eiffel Tower. It's much easier to take pictures like this from the second level 'cause you don't ...
Rue du Cherche Midi
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This is a picture of Rue du Cherche Midi right outside our apartment in Paris. The street is full of nice shops (expensive), bakeries, and...
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Gene Genie #25
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The 25th edition of Gene Genie has been posted at Gene Sherpas [ Gene Genie is Back at The Sherpa! ]. There are many posts that were sub...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
How Matt Nisbet Conned AAAS
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Some of you might recall an earlier posting where I criticize Matt Nisbet for the way he organized a panel at the AAAS meeting without all...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Nobel Laureate: André Lwoff
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965. "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"...
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A Canadian in Paris
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This is where I'll be for the next few weeks. I know, it's really tough being a biochemist, but somebody has to do it.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Goodbye Timmy's
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Thank God, there's a Tim Hortons at the airport. Extra large coffee and a honey cruller. Hmmmmm.... I won't be seeing any Timmy...
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Transcription Factors Bind Thousands of Active and Inactive Regions in the Drosophila Blastoderm
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A newly published paper in PLoS Biology (Li et al 2008) finds that many transcription factors are non-specifiaccly bound to DNA and they m...
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Goodbye Toronto
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It's too damn cold and there's way too much snow in Toronto. I'm getting out of town for a bit. Blogging may be intermittent, ...
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Happy Birthday Charles Darwin
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Charles Robert Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived. In honor of his birthday, and given...
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Repression of the
lac
Operon
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There are many lesson to be learned from understanding the regulation of transcription of a well-studied system like the E. coli lac opero...
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The
Lac
Operon
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The lac operon in E. coli consists of three genes 1 ( lac Z, lac Y and lac A) transcribed from a single promoter. The lac Z gene encodes ...
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