population genetics:
We went on an excursion last weekend to see the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Pacific Science Center. None of us could resist going downtown to look at written texts over 2000 years old. Uncovered in 1946, by a Bedouin...
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Posted on September 27, 2006 08:59 AM • 0 Comments •
Razib inspired me to share some of the story behind why white people are considered derivatives. Reposted from the Classic Digital Bio. No red herrings, here! Lamason et. al. found a single gene that controls human skin color while studying...
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Posted on September 26, 2006 08:58 AM • 2 Comments •
Did HIV become resistant to Atazanavir because of a genetic change? Was that genetic change inherited? Did HIV evolve? Can we explain why genetic changes at specific sites might help HIV escape the effects of the drug? Let's find out....
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Posted on August 23, 2006 10:06 AM • 0 Comments •
In which we see the results and come to our own conclusions. If you want to let other people tell you what's right and what's wrong, they will surely do so. Turn on the TV and hordes of happy actors...
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Posted on August 21, 2006 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Let the experiment begin....
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Posted on August 19, 2006 11:35 AM • 0 Comments •
When can a really bad virus be used to do something good? When we can use it to learn. The human immunodeficiency virus, cause of AIDS, scourge of countries, and recent focus of ScienceBlogs; like humans, evolves. As one of...
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Posted on August 17, 2006 11:59 AM • 2 Comments •
It's hard sometimes when you're out of synch with the rest of the world. While my fellow ScienceBloggers have been obsessing about breasts, I've been really amused by the genetics of ear wax. Eh, what's that you say? Yes, it's...
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Posted on August 10, 2006 02:30 PM • 3 Comments •
We've had a good time in the past few last weeks, identifying unknown sequences and learning our way around a GenBank nucleotide record. To some people, it seems that this is all there is to doing digital biology. They would,...
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Posted on July 28, 2006 08:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Genetics textbooks abound with stories of European royalty and the hazards of having children after you've married one of your cousins. It struck me as an interesting parallel that the lion is such a popular symbol in so many royal...
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Posted on June 30, 2006 09:25 AM • 1 Comments •