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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.

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December 29, 2008

Creationists and Deniers sittin in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Category: HIV/AIDS

Creationists and HIV Deniers, gawd bless em. So like, remember a while back when Andy Schlafly, Creationist of Conservapedia wrote PNAS demanding raw data, reagents, etc from Richard Lenski? And if Lenski refused to deliver that stuff to Schlafly (and...

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Wow! THANK YOU 'Sports Illustrated'!

Category: PUPPY!

Jim Gorant, thank you. The dog approaches the outstretched hand. Her name is Sweet Jasmine, and she is 35 pounds of twitchy curiosity with a coat the color of fried chicken, a pink nose and brown eyes. She had spent...

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Book Binge

Category: Books

An unfortunate side effect of grad school is that I have had zero spare time for reading. I mean, sure Ive got several hours a day to read papers, but I mean fun reading. Well this past week I took...

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December 25, 2008

What a crappy Christmas.

Category: Humor

Maaaaaan. Christmas 2005: Intelligent Design gets taken off life support Christmas 2006: Mr. Dembskis Fartastic Flash Animation Christmas 2007: Discovery Institute gets caught breaking the eighth commandment. Christmas 2008: Boo. *sigh* Well, we can always count on little Casey Luskin...

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December 21, 2008

Exasperating Ignorance

Category: BLAG

Oh George. I dont blame you for being angry. I attacked your profession, your profession is an extension of you, thus you took my comments personally, and completely missed what the hell I was talking about. 1-- I dont know...

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December 18, 2008

Internet Cultural Literacy Moment

Category: Humor

I grew up with the internet. This is my life. I regularly make internet culture references that others are too old/young to get (which is why I like hanging out with WoWers, even though I dont play-- they get my...

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Rick Warren: HIV/AIDS Activist

Category: HIV/AIDS

UPDATE 1/9/09-- More RIck Warrens anti-activism. When I found out yesterday that Rick Warren was speaking at Obamas inauguration, I was pretty grossed out. Grossed out, and confused. Obama and Warren appear to be polar opposites... but whatever. Its Obamas...

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December 17, 2008

Lentiviruses: Me, and you, and Zaboomafoo

Category: ERVs

Well, technically, like Zaboomafoos small mousy cousin...

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December 15, 2008

ew... epigenetics in SEED...

Category: Epigenetics

*sigh* My swooning over Venter on the cover of the latest edition of SEED was rudely interrupted by Larry Moran. Evidently he really does get SEED 'for the articles'. heh. Epigenetics at SEED Yeah, um, this SEED article... this article...

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A Beautiful Mind

Category: Humor

Ive spent the past week staring at a computer screen, comparing amino acid sequences of the envelope gene of various kinds of HIV-1. CNNKTFNGTGPCHNVSTVQCTHGIKPVVSTQLLLNGSLAEREIIIRSENLTDNVKTIIVHLNESVEISCTR PNNNTRKSIRIGPGQAFYATGDIIGDIRQAHCNISENWNKTLEWVRKKLEEHFPNKTIAFKPSSGGDLEI TTHSFNCRGEFFYCNTSKLFNGTDN CNNKTFNRTGPCNNVSTVQCTHRIKPVVSTQLLLNGSLAERKIIIRSKNLTDNVKTIIVHLNESVKIECTR PNNNTRQSTKIRPGQVFYAISNIIGDIRQAHCTINKKEWNTTLQQVTEKLKEHFPNKTIAFQPSSGEDLEI TTHSFNCKREFFYCNTSKLFNSTDN CNNKTFNRTGPCNNVSTVQCTHRIKPVVSTQLLLNGSLAERKIIIRSENLTDNVKTIIVHLNESVEINCTR PNNNTRKSIRIGPGQAFYATGDIIGDIRQAHCNISKENWNKTLQWVKEKLEEHFPNKTIVFKPSSGGDLEI TTHSFNCRGEFFYCNTSKLFNSTDN CNNKTFNRTGPC... Im just looking for changes and patterns...

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