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scientificactivistprofile.gif A postdoc by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his research in protein structure and function get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.

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Two New Papers on Integrin Activation

Category: integrins

My first first-author paper and another that I contributed to shed light on the important biological process of integrin activation.

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2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine: Telomeres and Telomerase

Category: Nobel Prize

Three Americans, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak, win the prize for the discovery of telomeres and telomerase.

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Why Swine Flu Is Resistant to Adamantane Drugs

Category: structural biology

All H1N1 swine flu isolates tested to date are resistant to adamantane-based drugs. This post explains the origin of this resistance in light of what we know about the structure and function of influenza proteins.

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THC Gives Cancer Cells the Munchies Too

Category: biology

The active ingredient in marijuana causes cancer cells to begin to degrade themselves from the inside, leading to programmed cell death.

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Fine-Tuning Cell Adhesiveness

Category: integrins

The cell adapts to constantly changing conditions by controlling the adhesiveness of the integrins.

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Where Is This "Cult of Darwinism" I've Been Hearing So Much About?

Category: evolution

I'm not sure where one finds it, but if such a thing does exist, I doubt you'll find it populated by scientists

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2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: HIV and HPV

Category: Nobel Prize

was awarded for the discovery of HIV and the discovery that HPV causes cancer.

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Do You Work on E. Coli?

Category: internet

If so, check out EcoliWiki.

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E. coli, We Hardly Knew You

Category: book reviews

The often unexamined life of E. coli comes alive in Carl Zimmer's Microcosm.

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Do You Want to Be Able to Crap Gold?

Category: chemistry

That might not be possible, but ingesting isotopically-enriched food would make your waste even more valuable.

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Why Are Veins Blue?

Category: biology

Here's a hint: blood isn't blue. Ever.

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An Integrin Is Identified as a Co-Receptor for HIV

Category: HIV/AIDS

Scientists identify the alpha-4 beta-7 integrin as a co-receptor for HIV, offering a potential new drug target.

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Integrin Phosphorylation as an Off Switch for Integrin Activation

Category: Life of Nick

A tiny modification can make a big difference in proteins involved in cell adhesion and migration.

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Stem Cells from Down Under

Category: stem cells

Awkward? Probably. But, menstrual blood stem cells show some early promise.

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Best Headline Ever: "Creature from Hell Promises Salvation"

Category: biology

Researchers discover methane-metabolizing bacteria that thrive in extreme environments and may have implications for global warming.

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Embryonic Stem Cell Debate Over; Thousands of Researchers Now Jobless

Category: stem cells

The media mangles otherwise interesting and significant stem cell findings.

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2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Knockout Mice

Category: Nobel Prize

Awarded for the knockout mouse to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans, and Oliver Smithies

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Ask a ScienceBlogger: A Sun Ray a Day....

Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger

Although extended unprotected exposure to the sun damages your skin and eyes, a small daily dose is important for maintaining general health and wellbeing

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More Trouble for the Schatten Lab, but One Potential Success

Category: stem cells

The U.S. Office of Research Integrity announced this week that it has found a former postdoc in Gerald Schatten's lab, Park Jong Hyuk, guilty of research misconduct for falsifying images in a manuscript on deriving embryonic stem cells from cloned...

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My Second Scientific Paper: Matrix Protease Activity in Tumor Cell Invasion

Category: Life of Nick

The second paper from my undergraduate work at Texas A&M University was recently published in Molecular Cancer. The abstract can be found here, and the pdf of the full paper here. Molecular Cancer is an open access journal, so a...

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More on Edible Cotton Seeds

Category: transgenic crops

Last month, I wrote a post about a research group at Texas A&M University that reported genetically engineering "edible cotton seeds" by using RNAi technology to stably and specifically knock out production of the gossypol toxin in the seeds of...

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Congratulations to Daniel Rhoads

Category: blogosphere

Via A Blog Around the Clock comes news that Daniel Rhoads, who writes the informative blog Migrations (and formerly A Concerned Scientist), has successfully defended his dissertation. So, after a few minor revisions, it looks like it won't be too...

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They Probably Won't Taste as Good as Cotton Candy...

Category: transgenic crops

But, a recent report in PNAS demonstrates that edible cotton seeds could be a real possibility, thanks to new transgenic crop biotechnology.

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Social Insects: More KGB than Brady Bunch

Category: behavioral genetics

Social controls play a surprisingly large role in encouraging altruism in insect colonies, according to a paper in last week's issue of Nature.

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The Structure of the Living Cell

Category: structural biology

Oxford's Iain Campbell discusses the past and future of structural biology.

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My First Scientific Paper: The Stabilization of Blood Vessels by Protease Inhibitors

Category: Life of Nick

My first appearance in the peer-reviewed scientific literature provides an opportunity to learn a little bit about blood vessel development.

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2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: RNA Interference

Category: biochemistry

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning, with one half going to Andrew Fire and the other half to Craig Mello, both for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). The discovery of RNAi added a...

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Where Do Babies Come From? Find the Answer and More in Coming to Life

Category: book reviews

Nobel Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard's Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development is an understated primer that lays out the current state of the art of developmental biology, shocking the reader with just how much we know about how each one of us came to take our unique but fundamentally similar shapes.

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Amphibian Disease Heats Up

Category: global warming

What do global warming and epidemic diseases have in common? Apparently they have a lot, at least when it comes to amphibians.

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Absolutely Terrifying

Category: biology

Australia is a scary place now, with more creatures that can kill you than anywhere else. Apparently, though, it used to be even more terrifying, with "killer kangaroos" and "demon ducks of doom" roaming about.

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Ask a ScienceBlogger: Cloning - Who Cares?

Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger

In 2006, cloning for cloning's sake isn't where it's at. Instead, the future of cloning lies in its applications to biomedical research. Today, that means, among other things, the prospect of using cloning to generate unique lines of embryonic stem cells.

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