Monthly Archives: April 2014

I recently came across a product at the drugstore that I’ve been meaning to try out. But before I decided to buy it, I did some research. Some of you may have heard of “Bag Balm”. It comes in a … Continue reading →

In light of a recent discussion on the possibilities today of “playing” with molecules and adapting them to our needs, I decided to share a comic from one of my favorite webcomics (though I really like “Hark! A Vagrant” as … Continue reading →

  I came across this gif (hopefully it’ll show up) of how RecA works! RecA is an Ecoli protein which among other things catalyzes the formation of chiasma during replication and repairs damage that occurs during recombination. Defects in the … Continue reading →

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/11/lab-grown-vaginas-successfully-implanted-in-girls-in-tissue-engineering-first/?tid=hp_mm Essentially, four females with a disease that prevented formation of their sexual organs, got lab grown vaginas (made from their own cells) implanted into them. So, as long as everything continues to go well, they are now able to … Continue reading →

This week, we spent some time talking about A-DNA, B-DNA, and Z-DNA and how the individual nucleotides are able to twist in specific directions but not others. I know I also wondered why only only one direction is allowed, why is … Continue reading →

I love it when material from different classes comes together! This week, I did a presentation on drug resistance in my cancer genomics class looking specifically at a drug that targets a fusion protein that is a product of a chromosome translocation. … Continue reading →

By this point, we’ve all established our opinions on Watson. Some of them have been somewhat unflattering. But, I watched a TED Talk (posted below) in which I thought he had some interesting research (life?) advice as he elaborated on … Continue reading →