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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Charles Darwin Was a Gradualist
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Punctuated Equilibria refer to patterns of evolution characterized by long periods of stasis interrupted by shorter periods of evolutiona...
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Natural Foods Contain Lots of "Carcinogens"
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Bruce Ames was a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). Thi...
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Did Rachel Carson Get It Right?
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Rachel Carson is widely credited with kick starting the environmentalist movement following publication of Silent Spring back in 1962. S...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
Militant Atheists
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Have you ever wondered why so many atheists are described as "militant" atheists? Read why on Jeff Shallit's blog Recursivit...
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D-Day
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Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. British, Canadian and American forces opened the second fron...
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Nobel Laureates: Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004. "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" Aaron Ciechanover (1947- ), Avr...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
SCIENCE Questions: What Determines Species Diversity?
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"What Determines Species Diversity?" is one of the top 25 questions from the 125th anniversary issue of Science magazine [ Scie...
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Protein Turnover
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One might assume that only growing or reproducing cells would require new protein molecules—and therefore a supply of amino acids—but this...
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Monday, June 04, 2007
SCIENCE Questions: How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?
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"How Does a Single Somatic Cell Become a Whole Plant?" is one of the top 25 questions from the 125th anniversary issue of Scienc...
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bio::blogs #11
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The 11th edition of bio::blogs, a carnival on bioinformatics, has been published at nodalpoint.org [ Bio::Blogs #11 ]. A special edition ...
Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?
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An article on the National Geographic website addresses an issue in the evolution of birds [ "Feathered" Dinosaur Was Bald, Not ...
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Monday's Molecule #29
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Today's molecule is my first example of a protein. I've given you two different views of the molecule showing most of it as a ribb...
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Sunday, June 03, 2007
Mendel's Garden #15
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Visit The Daily Transcript for your complete list of summer reading, courtesy of Gregor Mendel Mendel's Garden #15 - Summer Reading E...
Take the Carnegie Mellon University Survey on Ethical Standards
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This is a survey on ethics developed by workers at Carnegie Mellon University for readers of the New York Times [ Survey on Ethical Standa...
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Friday, June 01, 2007
Sequencing Jim Watson
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Jim Watson has just become the first person to have his complete genome sequenced. Craig Venter's genome sequence is not far behind. W...
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