Genetics & Molecular Biology

How Do Hummingbirds Hum? A Study In Metabolic Respiration

Hummingbirds require an enormous amount of energy to beat their wings fast enough to hover and maneuver. In many ways they appear to retain  some of the flight patters of insects, but they have an enormous amount of mass in comparison. Many changes in cel ...

Article - Keith Zimmerman - Jun 2 2010 - 7:10pm

The Splicing Code Decoded

Researchers have come a long way from initially cracking the DNA code since the time of Watson and Crick, to now unveiling the complex layers of molecular codes that make up the cell’s molecular fingerprint. These codes are no longer restricted to the 4 nu ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jun 7 2010 - 7:28pm

schematics on fake eyes

If you take a look at a marimba, a marimba has different tones in each pad.  Also, when you hit its volume and timber is slightly differently, in a concave design that is uneven to prevent reflection send back the geometric corrdinants to a processor that ...

Blog Post - Cynthia Mock - Jun 12 2010 - 12:23am

Are Enhancer RNAs A New Class Of Small RNAS?

Regarding the recent Nature News article (Transcription: Enhancer makes non-coding RNA. Nature 465, 173-174; 2010) about the discovery of enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) and their apparent link with neuronal activity, an initial question that arises is whether these ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Jun 16 2010 - 10:20pm

Pyruvate Kinase Puzzle- Enzyme Might Cause Multiple Sclerosis To Go Into Remission During Pregnancy

During pregnancy, many women experience remission of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and uveitis and scientists have described a biological mechanism they say is responsible for changes in the immune system that helps explain that remission. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2010 - 2:17pm

Mitochondria- In Pursuit Of The Energy Of Life

Scientists from the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Collaborative Research Center 746 of the University of Freiburg say they have discovered a new mechanism which plays an essential role in the assembly and growth of mitochondria, the & ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2010 - 9:58am

The $60,000 Man

This is what your next doctor's visit will sound like after you get your genome sequenced: ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 25 2010 - 3:47pm

Halorhodopsin- Microbial Protein Restores Vision In Blind Animals

Retinitis pigmentosa are a diverse group of hereditary diseases that lead to incurable blindness and affect two million people worldwide. Though the causes are diverse, the manifestation of the disease is similar: highly sensitive rod photoreceptors, whic ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2010 - 9:07am

Genetic Code 2.0- 3 Synthetic Amino Acids Combined Into One Protein

Proteins are the workhorses of our existence.   These "helmsmen of the cell" are composed of amino acids, whose sequence is already defined by the heritable information in every living being and transport substances, convey messages and carry out ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2010 - 11:53am

The Cell Membrane And The Effect Of Omega Fatty Acids On Red Blood Cells

The cell membrane at first may seem a simple device, but it is in fact a very complex machine. The basic building block is the phospholipid, a set of molecules that have hydrophilic (water loving) heads on one side and a hydrophobic (water hating) tail on ...

Article - Keith Zimmerman - Aug 11 2010 - 9:34am