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...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:50 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: molecular structures
How to compare mutant and normal protein structures.
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:41 AM • 10 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:36 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:54 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Bioinformatics
Can you solve this puzzle?
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:23 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology
You can find out. Blaine Bettinger, the Genetic Genealogist has a fun little quiz....
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 5:30 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:01 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Ask Dr. Science
And so do you.
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:45 PM • 21 Comments •