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  UPDATE : The molecule is cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), a protein involved in signaling [ PDB 1b38 ]. The Nobel Laureate is Paul Nurse....

  The total number of genes in the human genome has dropped from the initial estimates of 30-35,000 to about 25,000. Of these, more than 4,0...

  Canadian Cynic has built a career out of keeping an eye on The Blogging Tories . Every now and then CC comes up with something that makes...

International team cracks mammalian gene control code Stop the presses! Revise the textbooks! John Mattick and his collaborators have disc...

  Oh dear, my accommodationist friends aren't gonna like this. From the amazon.com site .... The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots H...

  Bob McDonald is the host of Quirks & Quarks on CBC radio. He has a blog and here's part of what he posted on Friday [ Another Ear...

  This is a very famous protein but most of you won't be able to identify it from the structure alone. You'll need a hint of some so...

  A reader (David) posted a comment about my recent Denyse O'Leary quotation. He alerted me to a new word: agnotology [ Comments ]. The...

  It's been a few weeks since my last humorous posting so at the start of a new week I thought I'd give you something to laugh about...

  Adenine : from the Greek adenas "gland": first isolated from pancreatic glands (1885) Cytosine : derived from cyto- from the G...

  I have a confession to make. Ms. Sandwalk and I, along with four other couples we've known for many years, are learning how to do ball...

  You'll have to read Evolutionary psychology: the adaptive significance of semen flavor to find out what Coyne thinks of evolutionary ...

  It's very likely that each one of us carries several recessive lethal alleles and many alleles that make us more susceptible to variou...

  Are you a Canadian scientist who is upset about cuts to research funding by the current government? Read the Open letter to the Prime Mini...

  The Single-Transferable Vote (STV) is a system where each voting district (riding/constituency) has multiple members. You vote for severa...