a scheme of the flow of genetic information according to the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology (via Wikimedia commons)
I often see searches within my blog about the basics of molecular genetics, DNA, etc. So I decided to talk about the molecular ‘brain’ of the fundamental biological entity called cell.… Read the rest
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
Someone who hopelessly banged his head against doors of funding agencies for several years, I can definitely say that evolutionary biology is not the most appealing scientific area to be in at the moment. You want to be in the biomedical research, doing things related to clinical work or design new pharmaceuticals.… Read the rest
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)
DNA helix, a cartoon by Jerome Walker, via Wikimedia Commons
Our civilisation is obsessed with youth and beauty. Face is sometimes called the mirror of our soul and we all want to keep this mirror clean, smooth and shiny. And this is what beauty industries are focused on. … Read the rest
Allegory of Immortality, by Giulio Romano, ca.1540.
The Immortality of the human soul is endlessly debatable until at least we find out what a soul is. The Immortality of the human body is a subject we can now talk about, thanks to the progress in biology.… Read the rest
The transgenic venomous wasps from the Hunger Games film/book are not just a fantasy anymore. It’s our present. The modern bio techniques allow for genetic modification (GM) of virtually any type of organism or a virus.
It all started half a century ago when the genetic code was first cracked, which enabled scientists to intrude into nature’s most intimate, molecular level.… Read the rest