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  Eva is a Ph.D. student in our department. She has a really cool blog called easternblot (get it?). You have got to see what she posted t...

Mammalian glycogen stores glucose in times of plenty (after feeding, a time of high glucose levels) and supplies glucose in times of need (d...

  Our friends are devastated because their niece, Nicole Vienneau, is missing in Syria. Her brother has a website with all the information [...

  Hsien-Hsien Lei, formerly of Genetics & Health, has a new blog called Eye on DNA . I've been reading it for a week or so and it lo...

  Friday's Urban Legend: PROBABLY FALSE BBC News reports that "Robins in urban areas are singing at night because it is too noisy d...

  Satellites solve mystery of low gravity over Canada If it seems Canadians weigh less than their American neighbours, they do—but not for t...

Animals can synthesize glucose 6-phosphate via gluconeogenesis just like all other species. However, unlike most species, animals can conver...

  This week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) (PNAS) has a number of articles on evolution. The most...

  Peter McKnight is a science journalist who writes for The Vancouver Sun. Don't hold that against him, he's actually one of the mos...

  John Wise is a Professor of Biology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (USA). He writes on the campus website [ Intelligent...

  Jeffrey Shallit, a long time opponent of intelligent design creationism, is an American citizen living in Canada. Why doesn't he becom...

  ABO Blood Types (Feb. 21, 2007) Glycoproteins (Feb. 20, 2007) Genetics of ABO Blood Types (Feb. 23, 2007) Human ABO Gene (Feb. 22, 2...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1947. "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen" ...

  Glucose is stored as the intracellular polysaccharides starch and glycogen. Starch occurs mostly in plants. Glycogen is an important stora...

All cells are capable of making glucose. The pathways is called gluconeogenesis and the end product is not actually glucose but a phosphory...