John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Category: Biology
Posted on: January 13, 2008 9:52 PM, by John Lynch
Scientists have discovered how two proteins called BERT and ERNI interact in embryos to control when different organ systems start to form. Apparently BERT binds to ERNI to unblock the transcription factor Sox2. Seriously.
The paper is over at PLoS Biology.
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Comments
So they have finally discovered the gay gene?
Ba-ZIIING!
HJ
Posted by: Bing McGhandi | January 14, 2008 12:03 AM
We should start a movement to get Sox2 renamed to Argyle Sox.
Posted by: stogoe | January 15, 2008 11:40 AM
Win.
Posted by: Lauren | January 15, 2008 12:36 PM