We Better Go Green.
Being a Principal Investigator (PI) and leading a scientific research team is an art. A true art of science. One needs to have a strong scientific background that is only obtained through years of extensive training and a clear mind. On top, one should have extraordinary people skills to lead the collaboration of various teams.
According to WikiPedia Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe recessive X-linked form of muscular dystrophy characterized by rapid progression of muscle degeneration, eventually leading to loss of ambulation and death. The disease affects one in 3500 males, making it the most prevalent of muscular dystrophy. Even though the disease is the most prevalent one of the muscular hypertrophies, the 1/3500prevalance qualifies for a rare disease (prevalence < 1 / 1,500 people).
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The World’s Worst Genetic Mutation in a Dog:
Strangely enough, I had already heard this theory — from a pharmaceutical company executive who, for obvious business reasons, didn’t want to be named. “All of the behavioral issues that we have created in ourselves, we are now creating in our pets because they live in the same unhealthy environments that we do,” he said. “That’s why there is a market for these drugs.”
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May 4, 2009, 6:00 am
Earlier Puberty in European Girls
"You got your eyes from your mother", "The exact same curly hair as your mother, you have". "You are going to be as tall as your father". We all heard these things when we were younger. But a 12 years old boy in 2015 is going to lookup his zipped DNA-file and will see graphically that his genes for blue eyes comes from his fathers genes and will get back to you " Noop, fathers genes".
The oldest ever recovered DNA samples have been collected from under more than a mile of Greenland ice, and their analysis suggests the island was much warmer during the last Ice Age than previously thought.
The discovery of 14,300-year-old feces in eastern Oregon's Paisley Cave provided the earliest direct evidence of humans ın the Americas. The feces were proof positive that humans lived in North America well before the Clovis people. Clovis people were considered to be the first inhabitants, around 12,000 years ago.
One version of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a 238amino acids (26.9 kDa) protein, isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. It glows green. Its emission peak is at 509 nm which is in the lower green portion of the visible spectrum. The other version of GFP is from the sea pansy (Renilla reniformis).
