Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Are You as Smart as a Third Year University Student? Q1

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  Over on the thread The Chemical Structure of Double-Stranded DNA we're having a little discussion about exam questions related to the...
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Measuring Stacking Interactions

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  The two strands of double- stranded DNA are held together by a number of weak interactions such as hydrogen bonds, stacking interactions, ...
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Junk DNA in New Scientist

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I just got my copy of the July 14th issue of New Scientist so I can comment on the article Why 'junk DNA' may be useful after all ...
Monday, July 23, 2007

DNA With Parallel Strands

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  A week ago I asked if any of you could identify a strange molecule that looked like a base pair [ A Strange Molecule ]. Steve LaBonne reco...
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The Story of DNA (Part 2)

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We've discovered the secret of life. .... Francis Crick Where Jim and Francis Discover the Secret of Life Following the disaster of...
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Nobel Laureates 1962

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  The other day we were talking about good American writers and the name "John Steinbeck" came up (for unknown reasons). This led ...

Monday's Molecule #36

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  Today's molecule is complex. It has a strange-looking ring structure. The short common name of this molecule is well known but your ta...
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Are you an atheist, agnostic, or a believer?

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  Blogger has a new feature so I thought I'd try it out. There's a poll in the left-hand margin. Click on the appropriate response.
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Hillary Clinton Is a Marxist According to Mitt Romney

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  American politics is like a reality TV show. It can be very entertaining at times but it's sort of like watching a train wreck. Here&#...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Frequency of Alternative Splicing

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One of these days I'm going to get around to blogging about alternative splicing. As most of you know, the databases are full of informa...
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Here's an Example of Pro-War Thinking

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  Steve Huntley has a column in Today's Chicago Sun-Times [ Careful, Iraq may be key to al-Qaida ]. It's a really good example of th...
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Shalini Doesn't Like Appeasers

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  Shalini, over at Scientia Natura: Evolution and Rationality has written a longish criticism of appeasers [ Appeasers: The spineless pus...
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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Rosalind Franklin Announces the Death of the Helix

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  If you've read The Story of DNA (Part 1) you'll know that we've reached the point in November 1951 where Watson and Crick hav...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Ethidium Bromide Binds to DNA

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  Last Monday's Molecule was ethidium, better known by the name of its common salt, ethidium bromide [ Monday's Molecule #35 ]. Ethi...
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The Name of Buddy Holley's Airplane was "American Pie"

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  Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE From americanpie.com . Basic errors in American Pie interpretations have been carried forward and sometim...
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