Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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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Monday, February 11, 2008
More Billboards in Chambersburg PA
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Read all about it at Battle of the Chambersburg billboards .
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Monday's Molecule #62
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Today's molecule is a cartoon depicting the action of several molecules. Your task is to identify all the molecules in the diagram and...
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Stu Kauffman in Toronto
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I went to hear Stu Kauffman on Friday night [see Reinventing the Sacred ]. Before the talk we had a little chat about blogging and some ot...
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Where does disbelief in Darwin lead?
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You probably think the answer to the question is obvious. The rejection of science leads to irrational behavior, right? Of course it's...
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What Freedom of Speech Really Means
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Read the amazing story on Friendly Atheist [ Atheist Billboard Taken Down ]. The Freedom from Religion Foundation contracted with Kegerr...
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A Case of Plagiarism
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The blogosphere is all atwitter about the publication of a paper titled "Mitochondria, the missing link between body and soul: Proteo...
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The Streisand Effect in Action
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I mentioned the Streisand Effect a few days ago. Here's a perfect example of how it works. ThePolitic.cmo is one of those Canadian b...
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God Only Knows
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I found a new Canadian blog called Stony_Curtis: Pop Culture, Guys, Food, Montreal . With a title like that, don't you just have to cl...
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The Meaning of Consensus
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What does Stephen Harper mean when he uses the word "consensus" as in, The Conservative government will not extend Canada's ...
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Junk in Your Genome: Intron Size and Distribution
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In the comments to Junk in Your Genome: Protein-Encoding Genes martinc asks, Larry, if the amount of necessary sequences within introns ar...
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Friday, February 08, 2008
Junk in Your Genome: Protein-Encoding Genes
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The typical human gene has eight exons and seven introns (the actual average number of introns is 7.2). These values are based on analysis o...
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Hsp90 and Evolution
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The SciPhu blog has an interesting series of posts on the chaperone Hsp90 and it's effect on evolution. Here's the list of articl...
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