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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 *: January 2011
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Monday, January 24, 2011. C u r i o s i t a s *: Lazy Sperms Check Inbreeding. C u r i o s i t a s *: Lazy Sperms Check Inbreeding. Links to this post. Thursday, January 20, 2011. Lazy Sperms Check Inbreeding. Mating between relatives) is costly, primarily as a consequence of the expression of deleterious recessive alleles[1,2] from a overtly constricted gene-pool. Some instances of adverse effects of inbreeding:. The dwindling numbers of. Released by the females with the...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: May 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Saturday, May 29, 2010. A mouse model for OCD, OCD, OCD, OCD. By switching off a single gene in mice, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have created rodents that behave anxiously and fixate on grooming. The genetically altered mice, which behave much like people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, could help scientists design new therapies for this debilitating condition. A physiscain-scientist, Shahin Rafii. Sore wounds and bald patches on the animals...
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* c u r i o s i t a s *: June 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Thursday, June 10, 2010. Pitching in for "itch"! Earthen sculpture of a bust of a wild-eyed man scratching his back by Robert Arneson, titled Pablo Ruiz with Itch. Is an unpleasant sensation that causes the desire or reflex to scratch the affected area; and the stimuli that causes it is termed Pruritic stimuli. Chronic itch represents a significant clinical problem resulting from renal diseases and liver diseases, as well as several serious skin. As it turns out, the grou...
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R&D for Lifetime of Life. Caffeine and the Brain. 3 Laws of Behaviour Genetics. Walking v diabetes . Dr Terry Dwyer and colleagues have found that walking cuts the risk of diabetes in a study of 600 adults in Tasmania. While the team focussed on diabetes, the results suggest a protective effect against metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease. The following figures are for those walking 10,000 steps, which is about 5 miles or 8km. For a person of average height, weight dropped was just under 3kg, or...
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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 *: August 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Thursday, August 26, 2010. C u r i o s i t a s *: Science of Symbiosis in the Solar-Salamander. Links to this post. Science of Symbiosis in the Solar-Salamander. Spotted salamander ( source. Another long-held scientific-dogma could be in the pipeline for complete annihilation! Gulp further, and faster.[sorry for sounding like the eager foreword of a naive novella].but this story IS as seductive as it can get. Actually, these alga are generally called " salamander algae.
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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 *: July 2010
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Science, Rationality, Curiosity. Monday, July 26, 2010. Investigating the Science of Death in Living Colour. Arguably, the most celebrated phenomenon studied by biologists, the science of programmed cell-death or Apoptosis. Is essential to normal development, healthy immune system function, cancer prevention and a plethora of other functions. The pace of investigation in this already deadly field would now surely hotten up with the monitoring of Real-Time Dynamics of apoptotic cells in Living Color.
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