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April 27, 2008
Category: viruses
A potential link between lung cancer and human papilloma virus may make parents even more glad about vaccinating their children with Gardasil®. Not only are the children protected against viruses...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:50 PM • 10 Comments •
April 26, 2008
Category: molecular structures
How to compare mutant and normal protein structures.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments •
April 24, 2008
Category: Genomics
Bill Gates, Eric Lander, Maynard Olson, Leena Peltonen, and George Church fielded questions last night at a fascinating panel discussion on personal genomics at the University of Washington. We were...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:41 AM • 10 Comments •
April 22, 2008
Category: Bioinformatics
One of my favorite web 2.0 technologies is the webinar. When you work at a company and not a University, with constant seminars, it gets a bit harder to hop...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:36 PM • 2 Comments •
April 17, 2008
Category: sequence analysis
In the class that I'm teaching, we found that several PCR products, amplified from the 16S ribosomal RNA genes from bacterial isolates, contain a mixed base in one or more...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •
April 16, 2008
Category: molecular structures
Ribosomes are molecular machines that build new proteins. This process of synthesizing a protein is also known as translation. Many antibiotics prevent translation by binding to ribosomal RNA. In the...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:54 PM • 2 Comments •
April 11, 2008
Category: Bioinformatics
Can you solve this puzzle?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:23 AM • 0 Comments •
April 9, 2008
Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology
You can find out. Blaine Bettinger, the Genetic Genealogist has a fun little quiz....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:30 PM • 0 Comments •
April 8, 2008
Category: molecular structures
I love using molecular structures as teaching tools. They're beautiful, they're easy to obtain, and working with them is fun. But working with molecular structures as an educators can present...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:01 PM • 11 Comments •
April 4, 2008
Category: Ask Dr. Science
And so do you.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:45 PM • 21 Comments •
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