December 31, 2006
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
(This is back dated as I would like to start the new year on a brighter note.) After a long day of skiing in the green hills of Vermont, my brother , cousin and I decided to go for a...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:59 PM • 2 Comments •
December 29, 2006
Category: Map that Campus
Last one for this year.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:52 AM • 13 Comments •
December 28, 2006
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
(I wish) I though I could spend a day or too relaxing ... but it seems like I can't do it. Today was spent cleaning the apartment in preparation for a family visit down from Montreal. We're actually meeting up...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 2:36 PM • 1 Comments •
December 27, 2006
Category: Pure Biology
2006 was (again) year of the RNA. Two nobels. The RNA world expanded with the discovery of Piwi RNA. RNAi as a transmittable trait? (Lamarck is vindicated!) We also found out that much of the conserved parts of our genome...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:13 AM • 5 Comments •
December 26, 2006
December 24, 2006
Category: Pure Biology
Check this out: First-in-Human Experience of an Antidote-Controlled Anticoagulant Using RNA Aptamer Technology From the paper:...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:12 AM • 5 Comments •
December 23, 2006
Category: Science & Society
... I was listening to NPR where they were discussing the bonus that Goldman Sachs gave to its CEO, Lloyd C. Blankfein, a record of $53.4 Million. Some one called to say...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:10 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Pure Biology
Earlier this week you probably read the whole saga of how researchers tracked down some individuals who could not sense pain. They then identified the gene responsible as SCN9A, a voltage-gated sodium channel and that was published in Nature. But...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:29 AM • 2 Comments •
December 20, 2006
Category: Tib Bits
Chris Phoenix asked me to comment on his entry: Studying Molecular Biology. As someone who is constantly playing around with cells I'll add this advice to how biological systems differ from watches and the Antikythera Mechanism, biological systems are composed...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:45 AM • 0 Comments •
December 19, 2006
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Last week was too stressful - although by Friday afternoon I had put together the pieces of the puzzle and it all makes sense (I'd tell you more about it, potentially I've stumbled upon a really cool little "cellular circuit",...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 2:26 PM • 0 Comments •
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