More than a Glow: The Firefly
“One night, a very lonely firefly goes off in search of friends. Each time he sees a flicker…
Gene
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Science Square (Issue 98)
Sequence Integration in the Brain Basal ganglia subcircuits distinctively encode the parsing and concatenation of action sequences. Jin…
Are Genes the Source of Behavioral Disorders?
We learn about a new gene everyday that is specifically associated with a certain human behavior or that…
Science Square (Issue 90)
Childhood environment leaves its mark on DNA Factors underlying variable DNA methylation in a human community cohort. L.L.…
Functional Art in the Nucleus: DNA
Volumes of books and hundreds of articles have been published about the structure and functions of DNA, since…
The Astonishing Story of Genome Organization: DNA Packaging in the Cell
Like most other experimental scientists, I hardly spend time in the library. In one of those rare occasions,…
A Well-designed On/Off Switch for the Cellular Pathways
In living cells, ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a key molecule, which is transcribed from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and…
Playing with Genes: Gene Therapy
As we live our lives, we often come across problems that can block our way. If our car…
From Genes to Proteins: A New Level of Complexity
Newspapers frequently run articles reporting a study about a gene linked to some disease. Thanks to such wide…
Can Genes Alone Explain Everything?
Genetics is probably one of the fastest developing contemporary sciences with an incredibly large accumulation of knowledge. This…
Darwinism and Altruism, Is There A Problem?
In Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest, those individuals best adapted to their environments are most…
Gen-ethic Anxiety and Some Reflections on the Genome Project
The Genome Project was started at a research institute known as HUGO, which is short for the Human…
Genetic Engineering’s impact on our lives
Humanity’s efforts to control nature dates back as far as recorded history. However, our mastery over nature has…
From Cell to Body
Living creatures, which are arranged in an organization by a hierarchic system of non-living matter, are combinations of…
Evaluating The Theory Of Evolution
The word “evolution” comes from the Latin verb volvere, meaning “to roll, wind, turn around, or twist around.”…