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Biology's Big Bang
The current issue of The Economist contains a special feature about RNA. One of the articles summarizes the recent advances that have made molecular biologists realize the significance of RNA; the oth… more »
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PhD position in Molecular Cell Biology - Universität Bonn
Mr. DiJey wrote 2 months ago: Ph.D.-Student (TVL E13/2) at the University of Bonn Two Ph.D. student positions are available in the … more »
PhD position in synaptic protein interactions - Uppsala University
Mr. DiJey wrote 4 months ago: PhD student position in synaptic protein interactions Our laboratory has identified several new prot … more »
Biology's Big Bang
MC wrote 10 months ago: The current issue of The Economist contains a special feature about RNA. One of the articles summari … more »
Sea sponges have the makings of a nervous system
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MC wrote 11 months ago: Sea sponges are sedentary organisms that attach themselves to the sea bed and filter nutrients from … more »
Invisibility cloak materials made from reflective self-assembling squid proteins
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MC wrote 11 months ago: A new study into the biophysical properties of a highly reflective and self-organizing squid protei … more »
Storage of information in cultured neurons
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MC wrote 11 months ago: Cultured neurons seem like ants away from their colony: removed from their parent organ, dissociated … more »
Müller cells: Nature's fibre optics
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MC wrote 1 year ago: “Schematic representation of mammalian retina structure. Artistic grouping of cells and direc … more »
Transcribe DNA sequences into music
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MC wrote 1 year ago: In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter makes an explicit analogy between genes and mus … more »
Reversal of memory impairments associated with Alzheimer's
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MC wrote 1 year ago: Researchers from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, with collaborators from the H … more »
April 25, 1953: Watson & Crick publish DNA structure
MC wrote 1 year ago: This unassuming one-page paper, published in Nature exactly 54 years ago, revolutionized the biologi … more »
Gene Genie Number 5
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MC wrote 1 year ago: Welcome to the fifth edition of Gene Genie, the carnival devoted to genes, clinical genetics and gen … more »
Using light to control neuronal activity
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MC wrote 1 year ago: A group of researchers led by Ed Boyden, an assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab and leader of t … more »
Researchers use rabies to draw brain circuit diagrams
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MC wrote 1 year ago: The brain is an organ of staggering complexity, consisting of hundreds of billions of cells (and ten … more »
It's neurotransmission, but not as we know it
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MC wrote 1 year ago: The standard view of how a neuron functions is described in hundreds of textbooks: dendrites receive … more »
Researchers untangle Alzheimer's
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MC wrote 1 year ago: All neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by the build-up of proteins within or around nerve … more »
Neurogenesis in the adult human brain
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MC wrote 1 year ago: One of the central dogmas of neuroscience was that the brains of adult mammals cannot generate new … more »
Giant squid dazzles prey with fireworks
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MC wrote 1 year ago: In 2005, Japanese researchers obtained, for the first time, footage of a giant squid in the wild. No … more »
Researchers show that prion disease symptoms & pathology are reversible
MC wrote 1 year ago: Experiments by researchers from the Institute of Neurology in London and the University of Birmingha … more »
Study shows how prion diseases sow their seeds
MC wrote 1 year ago: Prion diseases are a group of related neurodegenerative diseases, including bovine spongiform enceph … more »
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