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I'm a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. I also study epigenetic control of ERVs.
April 29, 2009
Category: Virology
Star Wipe Lisa: OK, I finished editing the gardening sequence. . . Homer: OK, from here we star wipe to a glamour shot of Flanders paying his bills, then we star wipe to Flanders brushing his teeth. . . Lisa:...
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April 28, 2009
Category: ERVs
Yes sir yes sir, ~27 insertionally polymorphic enJSRVs you can use to infer phylogeny.
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April 27, 2009
Category: Immunology
I never had allergies until I moved to Oklahoma. Evidently, when the wind comes sweeping down the plain at +45 mph, its carrying billions and billions of grains of cedar pollen. So even though I grew up in a damn...
Posted by ERV at 1:45 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2009
Category: Politics
So, like, last weekend the Oklahoma GOP had their convention in Tulsa. They put together their party platform. ... It is batshit insane. Like... *silence*... like just print this off (pdf), close your eyes, point at a random sentence and...
Posted by ERV at 9:30 PM • 78 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 23, 2009
Category: Politics
That was close. HB 1326, aka 'Politicians against baby murder and for hot pancakes' was vetoed by Gov. Henry last night. This morning the House voted to override the veto 68-26... But the override only got 26 votes in the...
Posted by ERV at 6:15 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: HIV/AIDS
Creationism and HIV Denial. They are the same thing. THE SAME THING.
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April 22, 2009
Category: Politics
Bill 1326 makes scientists criminals in OK-- and there might not be anything Gov. Henry can do about it...
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April 17, 2009
Category: General Science
T. Boone Pickens. Never heard of the guy till I moved to OK. Some gazillionare that donates a shitload of money to Oklahoma State in Stillwater. Now while Pickens seems kinda like a cliche Republican (oil man, Swift Boat contributor,...
Posted by ERV at 10:15 PM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 16, 2009
Category: Virology
While Ive mentioned the connection between endogenous retroviruses and Multiple Sclerosis on teh blag before, I realized Ive never written a post on this topic. Fortunately I just read an interesting paper thats provided me with a good opportunity to...
Posted by ERV at 3:00 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 15, 2009
Category: Evolution
Last year I wrote about a cool paper, arguing for the creation of a new polio vaccine. Briefly, polio is an RNA virus, thus has an error-prone RNA-RNA polymerase, thus acts like a quasispecies like HIV-1. Now, a live attenuated...
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