A Little Cancer in All of Us
Cancer. The thought of it can be absolutely terrifying. Moreso than heart disease, stroke, or Alzheimer’s. Maybe because its diagnosis often seems so out of the blue, or because we […]
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Is Eukaryotic DNA Still Living in a Prokaryotic World? How Changing Our Labels Can Change the Way We Think about Genetics
A “housekeeping” gene is a gene which is constitutively or constantly expressed and is necessary for basic cellular functions. “Contingency” genes, on the other hand, produce gene products which are, […]
The Bionic Cell: How Metal Ions Make the Cellular World Go Round
Metal ions. DNA just doesn’t work right without them. Or much of biology for that matter. Back in the 1980s, Graham Cairns-Smith postulated that, rather than nucleic acids forming the […]
Lazy Science: Can the Life Sciences Handle All This “Big Data”?
There was a recent article in The New Yorker titled, “Steamrolled by Big Data,” which reminded me of the trend occurring now in the Life Sciences. Even though, unlike Google, […]
Science Over a Cuppa 
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