As a make-up for having hardly any time to post during the Week of Science, I have just added a set of four posts of pure science to my blog in rapid succession. On is on something that was already mentioned here, but the others are unrelated to anything on GNXP, so if you want […]

First of all I would like to invite you all to come and check out my new blog, Science, Theory, and Liberty, at http://scitheory.blogspot.com. Unlike here at GNXP, my week of science is just starting, since I haven’t had much of a chance to post to blogs lately. Since I won’t have access to a […]

…when it specifies a different fold! At least that’s the latest word from Kimchi-Sarfaty et. al., who reported in the Jan 26 issue of Science that a supposedly “silent” mutation in the multidrug resistance gene MDR1 changes the function of the encoded protein. If the authors’ conclusions are correct, this result could radically expand the […]

From Epigenetics News: Researchers at the Wadsworth Center, the public health laboratory of the New York Sate Department of Health, have shown it is technically feasible to detect DNA methylation using a simple breath test. Dr. Weiguo Han and Dr. Simon D. Spivack have tested seven patients by having them breath into a handheld device […]

I just had a short conversation with one of my professors about one of my most common topics of discussion, namely the role of human understanding in science and engineering. He made a comment like “the most interesting things in the universe are ones we cannot understand”, which seemed like a quite unusual thing to […]

I’m sure Coffee Mug can explain a lot more about the significance of this, but in a new article in Science researchers report fusing a fluorescent protein to a particular potassium channel, known as Kv1.1, and using this to determine the site of synthesis of the channel. The particular type of fluorescent protein they used […]

The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello “for their discovery of RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA”. This is the now quite well-known phenomenon of RNA interference (RNAi), in which double-stranded RNA can interact with complementary messenger RNA to block the expression of […]

I know this has nothing intrinsically to do with genetics, but it has something to do with cognitive ability testing, which I know is a favorite topic of discussion on GNXP. I was inspired to write a post on this since I am in the process of preparing for the GRE. Among the preparation materials […]

Today on msn.com I found metion of this article reporting a study of the effect of breastfeeding on the stress response of children at 10 years of age. The study involved almost 9000 children born in Great Britain in 1970. The occurrence of divorce or separation of the parents was also included in the statistical […]

I just posted this on my own blog last night and thought I’d cross-post it here, as there have been a few posts lately about neurotransmitters, neurons, and behavior. About a month ago I saw this article about the role of the dopamine transporter in cocaine reward. For those that don’t know, the modified amino […]

Okay, this is my first post, and I must admit it has no interesting science news in it. However, I think many on here will find this funny. A few days ago I took a look at Mendel’s Garden #3, and among the featured posts is a discussion of the work of Japanese biologist Susumu […]