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* c u r i o s i t a s *: February 2011
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Saturday, February 12, 2011. Circadian-Clocks tick without DNA. Intricate machinary of a clock. Is there a master-tuner? This idea would forever change the way we would look at Circadain-Rythms, simply because it trashed a dogma - one that required DNA to run biological-clocks! There are specific ". 1Is the nucleus [actually the DNA contained in it] necessary for clock-maintainance in mammals? Actually, several classical model organisms that are genetically tractable (for...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: June 2011
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Reprogrammed iPS-cells are not safe from self immune-attack. This virtual blind-end was resuscitated recently by the work of Yamanaka et al. And others, who found out a way to, well, at least theoretically, get around the immunological-rejection problem. This was followed by a series of iPS-cell derivations, from mice as well as humans [2,3,4]. All was fine, until this ‘letter’ in Nature. The team used two different methods to make the iPS cells, a...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: Reprogrammed iPS-cells are not safe from self immune-attack.
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Reprogrammed iPS-cells are not safe from self immune-attack. This virtual blind-end was resuscitated recently by the work of Yamanaka et al. And others, who found out a way to, well, at least theoretically, get around the immunological-rejection problem. This was followed by a series of iPS-cell derivations, from mice as well as humans [2,3,4]. All was fine, until this ‘letter’ in Nature. The team used two different methods to make the iPS cells, a...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: April 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Thursday, April 1, 2010. The growing concern over "Water-Footprint". Alongside the now-famous Carbon-footprint is the concern over its lesser known but equally woeful sibling "Water-Footprint". The water footprint concept was introduced in 2002 by A.Y. Hoekstra from UNESCO-IHE. As an alternative indicator of water use. The Colours of water-footprint. A water footprint consists of three components: the blue, green and grey water footprint. It is approximated that:. 16000 l...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: October 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Tumbled-Thinkers of the world - Unite [and Rejoice]! It's that time of the year, when the air's chilly and festive, the Hot-n'-Serious Nobels' have just left us dreamy-eyed, soaked in sweat and a wide anticipatory grin lies plastered across our face.it's time for some serious-fun and serious-thought.its time to celebrate the int. Following words (and the story thereon), are from the Ig-nobel site on Improbable-research. Why We Do It. REFERENCE: ...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: Circadian-Clocks tick without DNA
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Saturday, February 12, 2011. Circadian-Clocks tick without DNA. Intricate machinary of a clock. Is there a master-tuner? This idea would forever change the way we would look at Circadain-Rythms, simply because it trashed a dogma - one that required DNA to run biological-clocks! There are specific ". 1Is the nucleus [actually the DNA contained in it] necessary for clock-maintainance in mammals? Actually, several classical model organisms that are genetically tractable (for...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: Algae could help clean-up nuclear-accident sites
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Algae could help clean-up nuclear-accident sites. The 'Mushroom-cloud' formed due to a nuclear explosion (image adapted. The dark images and darker consequences of several nuclear disasters. April 26, 1986), Kyshtym. September 29, 1957), Three-Mile island. March 28, 1979) and the very-ongoing Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear accident. From Manhattan to Moniliferum. The common freshwater alga Closterium moniliferum. Members of the desmid order, they are ...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: February 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Thursday, February 4, 2010. Secret of Sperm-motility revealed! Image of sperm (from "google-images" ). Happens to be the ONLY naturally motile cell of the body. But, the exact mechanism of it's movement has always remained a mystery. Yuriy Kirichok and his team from UCSD have identified the mechanism that triggers sperm's race to the egg, reports a study in Cell. Hv1 is confined to the principal piece of the sperm flagellum, where it is expressed at unusually high density...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: April 2011
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Algae could help clean-up nuclear-accident sites. The 'Mushroom-cloud' formed due to a nuclear explosion (image adapted. The dark images and darker consequences of several nuclear disasters. April 26, 1986), Kyshtym. September 29, 1957), Three-Mile island. March 28, 1979) and the very-ongoing Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear accident. From Manhattan to Moniliferum. The common freshwater alga Closterium moniliferum. Members of the desmid order, they are ...
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