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Evolution:
You may think you're African-American, but...
Category: Evolution
your genes may say something else.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:13 PM • 13 Comments •
Checking out the new Ebola virus and playing some tricks with BLAST
Category: Bioinformatics
Ebola virus has impressed me as creepy ever since I read "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story some years back by Richard Preston. (I guess he has a new...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:30 AM • 6 Comments •
Science events in Seattle: Science on Tap or Parasitic Creationists
Category: Seattle
Two interesting events are happening, Monday night, Oct. 27th. At the UW: Josh Rosenau from the National Center for Science Education will be speaking at 6 pm about Creationist attacks...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments •
Visit the Galápagos for free! (as an avatar)
Category: Science education
The Galápagos islands rank high on my list of places that I really, really, really want to visit. But for many reasons, it's always looked like a trip to the...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:18 AM • 1 Comments •
A gene that might protect us from HIV and other retroviruses
Category: HIV/AIDS
One of the holy grails of modern medicine is the development of a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDs. An obstacle to attaining this goal has been the...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:03 PM • 0 Comments •
Mapping polymorphisms in 16S ribosomal RNA
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 •
Meet the ribosomes
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 • 3 Comments •
A beginner's guide to making a phylogenetic tree
Category: phylogeny
I made this video (below the fold) to illustrate the steps involved in making a phylogenetic tree. The basic steps are to: Build a data set Align the sequences Make...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:11 AM • 36 Comments •
Digital Biology Friday: Who were those molecules anyway?
Category: molecular structures
Two molecules are locked in a tight embrace. Who are they?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:12 AM • 2 Comments •
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