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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February 21, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
How do plants grow at 65°C?
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February 17, 2007
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...
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Category: Science education
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February 16, 2007
Category: Announcements
It's a sure thing.
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Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology
Human genes get turned on when DNA is touched in different places.
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February 13, 2007
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....
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Category: Evolution
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February 9, 2007
Category: PubMed
The best place for biology words.
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February 8, 2007
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...
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February 7, 2007
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,...
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