September 30, 2006
Category: Science & Society
A lesson of what not-to-do from the Yeda vs. ImClone Patent trial. Yeda provided detailed records of their development of Erbitux, ImClone provided no records, but relied on Joseph Schlessinger's account of a twenty year old conversation.
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September 29, 2006
Category: Map that Campus
What is this week's mystery campus?
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September 28, 2006
Category: Pure Biology
Here is an illustration from a recent PLoS Biology paper: Two complexes: 1- miRNA. Imperfect base pairing between the small RNA and the target. This complex sorts the RNA to p-bodies (processing bodies) where other proteins join in. The mRNA...
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Category: Science & Society
Wow - a creationist was appointed to high level position in the Conservative government back home. On the other side of the line Richard Dawkins has set up a foundation to promote acceptance of atheists (Richard, you better open a...
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September 27, 2006
Category: Science & Society
Someone yesterday asked whether there were online odds for the upcoming Nobels? Well Thomson Scientific (producers of ISI and other citation indices) have their own predictions and a poll too (although they only give 3 choices???) Medicine & Physiology predictions...
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Category: Pure Biology
Newest from PLoS Biology: Raj A, Peskin CS, Tranchina D, Vargas DY, Tyagi S Stochastic mRNA Synthesis in Mammalian Cells. PLoS Biol (2006) 4(10): e309 The authors genomically incorporated a gene with 32 tandem copies of a 43-base-pair probe-binding sequence...
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September 26, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
Who will win this year? Some guesses for the Medicine & Physiology (or perhaps Chemistry) below the fold. Warning - the guesses presented here are highly biased towards cellular physiology....
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Category: Lab Life
It's the end of the world. You are barricaded in your lab. You have unlimited access to water. What lab supplies can you eat? What order should you consume them in?
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September 25, 2006
Category: Science & Society
Just came back from New York. As usual we met up with the old crew and had a blast. On Saturday we stopped by Korea Town (32nd Street) for some kimchi. Sitting down, we saw this: Kimchi from GMO bacteria!...
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September 23, 2006
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Why? You can find treasures there. I once owned this book, then lent it to a friend who is now studying place cells in Bristol, UK. (Bruno you can keep the book.)...
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