Archives for September, 2010
HIV-1 and ‘epigenetics’: Still not magic, but is it still epigenetics?
Posted by ERV on September 2, 2010 A long time ago, I think on Pharyngula, Richard Dawkins said something that really pissed me off. Its been so long ago I cant find the right comment thread anymore, but Dawkins said something regarding epigenetics along the lines of “Um… isnt this just a fancy word for transcription regulation? Stuff weve been studying for…
Oh no… Cedric died.
Posted by ERV on September 1, 2010 Oh no… Im genuinely crying over this. Cedric the Tasmanian Devil died. Here is the obvious reason for why I loved Cedric: But I loved Cedric for scientific reasons too. I thought he was going to help us save Tasmanian Devils from extinction. Dr. Alex Kreiss is the cute boy in that pic. Dr Kreiss…
Im writing a couple papers right now. Which means when I get home, Im like ‘YAY BLOGGIE TIME!… ugh, writing… ugh… gonna watch TV…’ It doesnt help Ive gotten all excited about a few papers I wanted to blog about, only to subsequently realize they werent as cool as I thought they were, so I…