Genetics & Molecular Biology

Physicists Slice Mysteries Of Myoglobin With Occam's Razor

Proteins are the heavy lifters of cells, doing numerous tasks, but how the shape of a protein determines function remains one of the most important questions in the physics of biology. Proteins are not the static, Lego-like objects you might see in an x-ra ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2010 - 4:19pm

MSC Universal- Adult Stem Cells That Do Not Age

Stem cells help regenerate or repair damaged tissues, primarily by releasing growth factors that encourage existing cells in the human body to function and grow. There has been an ongoing ethical controversy about human embryonic stem cell research but pro ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2010 - 1:09pm

Impact factor or research what is more important

During a meeting a senior person said he does not need extension any more as he has been asked to publish in a journal with a high impact factor This statement is not from any real situation but improvised to bring out a point. Good impact factor journals ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 2 2010 - 1:16pm

Globalization, impact factor and research output assessment for human welfare.

If you remember your visit to an airport of Moskow, or Indira Gandhi Airport terminal 2 of yesteryears, or airports of even european countries some 20 or 30 years ago there was a distinct feeling where you have landed. There was reflection of culture of th ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 3 2010 - 12:59pm

Altered Cardiac Muscle Cells Controllable With Light

Scientists have altered cardiac muscle cells to make them controllable with light and showed an ability to cause conditions such as arrhythmia in genetically modified mice, which opens up new possibilities for researching the development and therefore trea ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2010 - 2:11pm

What's biggest and what's smallest?

The longest human protein is Titin with 34,350 amino acids. The smallest human protein is 44 amino acids but it could be an abortive translation from the 5' UTR of another mRNA. The smallest functional polypeptide is glutathione with only three amino ...

Blog Post - Yu Zhang - Oct 7 2010 - 9:26pm

Why do we have more urge to criticize?

It is very difficult to see some plus point in something good. It’s very easy to criticize. All animals who have frontal eyes are fighter type like lion, tiger, and man also. Man is part of animal kingdom and not a super creation or master of creation It i ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 7 2010 - 11:14pm

The smallest protein

Ever wonder what the smallest protein is? Apparently it's TRP-Cage, a protein with only 20 amino acids derived from the saliva of Gila monsters. Trp-cage- smallest protein You can find the structure file and images in the PDB database (www.pdb.org) wi ...

Blog Post - Yu Zhang - Oct 9 2010 - 10:32am

Jatropha is not a holy cow

People considered Jatropha some kind of miracle plant which will produce tonnes of oil without nutrition, water and good land and good seed or good climate. Researchers are not needed. Agrotechnology is not to be developed and all one has to do is to find ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 11 2010 - 2:05pm

Cellular Memory, Amnesia And "Inception"

The smallest entity of life is the single cell, which exists not only as single cell organisms, but as evolution proceeds, as members of a bigger and more complex living organism. During the progression of life, an organism encounters many experiences, and ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Oct 12 2010 - 9:51pm