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By apalazzo on March 28, 2008.

This will be short - I'm performing a big protein purification prep today.

Visualizing a single ribosome translating amino acids, one at a time at Biocurious (Nature Article here).

Two posts on that Lin-28 paper in Bayblab and The Skeptical Alchemist. Just to remind you, Lin-28, a factor that was part of the four gene cocktail that the Thomson group used to program stem cells, has now been shown to inhibit the processing of let7 miRNAs. More posts on miRNAs and stem cells on Science and Reason.

RPM gets excited about how sleep deprivation affects fly sex - oh and it's all on prime time TV (RPM has the video).

I have been writing a series of posts about the connections between cancer, stress and TOR signaling. As I've mentioned, TOR regulates autophagy (cells eating their own constituents). Ouroboros writes about some recent research regarding autophagy, TOR and their affects on lifespan.

Attila over at PIMM is going to write and edit his doctoral thesis on his blog. Here is his first entry: Thesis live: Introduction, "contents" draft

Finally Jennifer Oullette has a great post on the history brain histology (with appearances by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramon y Cajal!) Those two remind me of something I should post later today ...

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