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September 21, 2011

3:30 PM | I’m a Johnson from Wisconsin, and it is pretty cool.

In a recent Scientific American guest post, Matthew Van Dusen wrote, essentially, who cares about genealogy. He meant specifically “distant genealogy,” and was responding to a summer New York Times article about his massive family tree. He titled his piece “Going Dutch: I’m one of the Van Dusens of New Amsterdam. So what?” I agree, [...]

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poly(A) messages; lost in translation

From a virus' perspective, how do you translate your own messenger RNA (mRNA), whilst not allowing your host cell to continue manufacturing its own proteins, including those that might be detrimental to virus survival? It's a problem viruses have found various ways to overcome, often by manipulating the biology of the mRNAs, which have the following structure: The classical polyadenylated mRNA ready for translation Simply, an eIF4F cap-binding complex binds to the cap and a poly(A) […]

Rubio, R., Mora, S., Romero, P., Arias, C. & Lopez, S. (2013). Rotavirus Prevents the Expression of Host Responses by Blocking the Nucleocytoplasmic Transport of Polyadenylated mRNAs, Journal of Virology, 87 (11) 6336-6345. DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00361-13

Piron, M. (1998). Rotavirus RNA-binding protein NSP3 interacts with eIF4GI and evicts the poly(A) binding protein from eIF4F, The EMBO Journal, 17 (19) 5811-5821. DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5811

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Strategies for Breaking Even on Home Energy Consumption Suggested

When you are buying a car you always look at official miles per gallon figures to find out how much fuel it will use. At the same time, most people have only a vague idea about how much energy their houses consume, even though home energy expenditures often account for a larger share of the household budget. Read more »

N.A. McNabb (2013). Strategies to Achieve Net-Zero Energy Homes: A Framework for Future Guidelines Workshop Summary Report., NIST Special Publication, DOI: 10.6028/NIST.SP.1140

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Scientists Trying to Photograph Photosynthesis

Photosynthetic oxidation of water is one of the central processes of life on Earth, but it is still not completely understood. Now, a German-American team of scientists has set out to observe the intermediate stages of this complex catalytic reaction using ultrashort snap shots taken at light sources including BESSY II in Berlin and the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford. Read more »

Kern, J., Alonso-Mori, R., Hellmich, J., Tran, R., Hattne, J., Laksmono, H., Glockner, C., Echols, N., Sierra, R., Sellberg, J. & Lassalle-Kaiser, B. (2012). Room temperature femtosecond X-ray diffraction of photosystem II microcrystals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (25) 9721-9726. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204598109

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Eye of the tiger

A new study on the genetic structure of the Indian tiger has found that the current tiger population now only retain a small proportion of the historical mitochondrial DNA haplotypes. The new study has just been published in Proceedings of the Royal … Continue reading →

Mondol S, Bruford MW & Ramakrishnan U (2013). Demographic loss, genetic structure and the conservation implications for Indian tigers., Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 280 (1762) 20130496. PMID: 23677341

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The Buzz About Akkermansia muciniphila: It’s More Than Just Weight Loss

The bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila is creating quite a stir in science news, with people calling it the “weight loss bacterium”. While it’s exciting to think about a bacterium that has the ability to reduce body weight with no change in food intake, there’s another reason to get excited: The potential to treat obesity-related metabolic disorders […]

Everard A., Belzer C., Geurts L., Ouwerkerk J.P., Druart C., Bindels L.B., Guiot Y., Derrien M., Muccioli G.G. & Delzenne N.M. & (2013). Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PMID: 23671105

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