by Dan on January 30, 2008

One of the several popular views regarding the origin of life stems from thermodynamics. Harold Morowitz refers to it as "Metabolism recapitulates biogenesis". In PLoS Biology there's an interesting essay that was submitted (read on...)

by Dan on January 29, 2008

Form follows physics in the fly eye, say Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Sinem Erisken, and Richard Carthew Simple forces, complex shapes: While most biological features appear complex in their geometries and varieties of components, (read on...)

by Dan on January 3, 2008

Here's a comment on work published about 6 months ago that was relevant to me, given my graduate studies on FAK with Jun-Lin Guan. The relations between protein structures and evolution are quite interesting indeed. As more (read on...)

by Dan on January 2, 2008

Two blog posts recently collided for me. First, in a blog discussion on Macroevolution vs. Microevolution, Allen MacNeill clarified some issues for me (thanks to TUIBG for bringing it back up): Add the newly emerging fields of (read on...)

by Dan on December 19, 2007

Amid the political controversy and obstructions to conducting stem cell research, scientists this year managed to turn lead into gold... Genetically manipulating fibroblasts to become ESC(embryonic stem cell)-like sort of sounds (read on...)

by Dan on December 13, 2007

As always, it's these odd conjunctions of things that don't go together that catches the eye. In this case, molecular and sociology. The actual article1 is much more mundane and true to the correct science jargon, and included (read on...)

by Terry on December 13, 2007

A recent article in Science discussed a claim made by Bill and Melinda Gates, where they proposed that malaria could be eradicated from the Earth over the next few decades. Vanquishing disease is seen as the ultimate goal in (read on...)

by Dan on December 10, 2007

Cognition is a term frequently used in several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the human-like processing of information. Signal transduction networks certainly fit that bill, as the mediate adaptive changes in (read on...)

by Dan on December 6, 2007

Myosin II functions as a molecular motor which facilitates contraction of the actin cytoskeleton during migration, resides outside of protrusions at the front of motile cells, and acts at a distance to impact cell protrusion, (read on...)

by Dan on December 4, 2007

On a couple other blogs, a study published in Science by Joan Steitz1 is being called "One of the biggest findings of the year," and "If it turns out to be true, this finding just flipped the whole field on its head." Bitesize (read on...)