Grigory Ryzhakov – Russian Writer

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Brain. Memory. Chromatin. DNA. RbAp48

PLoSBiol4.e126.Fig6fNeuron

Colourful section of a brain. Someone was definitely bright 🙂 (By Wei-Chung Allen Lee, Hayden Huang, Guoping Feng, Joshua R. Sanes, Emery N. Brown, Peter T. So, Elly Nedivi [CC-BY-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons)

A curious study has just been published describing research on cellular proteins involved in sustaining brain memory.… Read the rest

Nobel 2012: Stem Cell, Cloning and the DNA State

A scheme of animal cloning (converted to SVG by Belkorin, modified and translated by Wikibob [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons)

The first science Nobel Prizes were awarded this week.  John B. Gurdon of the University of Cambridge in England and Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan received the prize in Physiology and Medicine for their work showing how it’s possible for a mature cell of the body to revert to a state similar to embryonic.… Read the rest