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Hot plants and viruses, part III: An inordinate fondness for hypothetical proteins
Category: Bioinformatics
How do plants grow at 65°C?
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What made me sick?
Category: Ask Dr. Science
How do microbiologists determine which microbe caused a disease? As Tara has eloquently described (I, II), we are covered with bacteria and other microbes. A reasonable question then, is when...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:29 PM • 9 Comments •
Celebrate Darwin Day by writing an essay!
Category: Science education
Win cash or other prizes!
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:37 AM • 2 Comments •
February 16, 2007
Betting on summer research for undergraduates
Category: Announcements
It's a sure thing.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:35 PM • 2 Comments •
Everything old is new again
Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology
Human genes get turned on when DNA is touched in different places.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:20 PM • 1 Comments •
February 13, 2007
Opening up new VISTAs
Category: Humor
I received a mysterious file last week, via e-mail from one of my students. According the e-mail, the file contained the answers to an assignment....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:50 PM • 9 Comments •
That which cannot be mentioned by name
Category: Evolution
You can write about sex, but you can't write about
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:18 PM • 5 Comments •
February 9, 2007
MeSH part I. Where can you find the meaning of "life"?
Category: PubMed
The best place for biology words.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:58 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2007
What are hypothetical and putative proteins?
Category: Basics
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" - from Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll I'm certain...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:17 PM • 2 Comments •
February 7, 2007
Hot plants and viruses: the story continues
Category: Bioinformatics
Yesterday, both Joshua and I wrote about grasses that grow in the unusually hot soil at Yellowstone National Park. Now, I knew that hot springs bacteria can tolerate high temperatures,...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:36 PM • 0 Comments •
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