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Book InformationDon't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear: the genetics of ear wax Laura Dean, MD
Initial Posting: October 11, 2006
Will malaria soon be a thing of the past? the potential of recombinant protein vaccines to control one of the world's most deadly diseases Tyler Beck
Initial Posting: June 26, 2006
What you see is not what you get: DNA barcoding is helping scientists unveil nature's most hidden diversity Marcia Triunfol, PhD
Initial Posting: August 1, 2005
Do brains have a freshness date? the effect of aging on the human brain Victoria Sutton, PhD
Initial Posting: January 12, 2005
Who let the dogs out? a genetic classification of dog breeds Laura Dean, MD
Initial Posting: October 13, 2004
Microbial diversity: let's tell it how it is Jo McEntyre, PhD
Initial Posting: March 4, 2004Last Update: March 26, 2004
Talking about the genetics of talking: the discovery of the first "speech and language" gene Laura Dean, MD
Initial Posting: November 1, 2003Variations on a gene: investigating the genetic basis of iron overload Laura Dean, MD
Initial Posting: August 25, 2003A small fortune: small RNAs involved in the regulation of developmental timing
Initial Posting: June 5, 2002Finding Fanconi: the hunt for the cause of autosomal dominant renal Fanconi syndrome
Initial Posting: October 22, 2001Opening the flood gates? association of NOD2 with Crohn's disease
Initial Posting: August 6, 2001Honey, I shrunk the genome: genome reduction in the leprosy bacillus
Initial Posting: April 30, 2001Ready, steady, go! a two-part switch that regulates gene expression
Initial Posting: March 12, 2001Fluorescent timer: the E5 mutant of the red coral protein drFP583 changes its fluorescence from green to red over time
Initial Posting: January 22, 2001Cytosolic help for mitochondrial defects: a novel method for importing tRNA into mitochondria in order to suppress mutations
Initial Posting: December 4, 2000The mouse that eats less but gains weight: a neuropeptide receptor, Mc3r, is shown to play a role in regulating energy stores
Initial Posting: November 6, 2000Tuberous sclerosis complex in flies too? a fly homolog to TSC2, called gigas, plays a role in cell cycle regulation
Initial Posting: July 27, 2000The beginning of the END: the EAST protein assembles a nucleoskeleton between chromosomes
Initial Posting: June 16, 2000Mutations and blood clots: how point mutations in clotting factor genes conspire to increase the risk of thrombosis Laura Dean, MD
Initial Posting: April 26, 2000Viruses provide direction on the plant information superhighway: a viral movement protein helps to identify a counterpart in plants
Initial Posting: December 8, 1999How Candida albicans switches phenotype - and back again: the SIR2 silencing gene has a say in Candida's colony type
Initial Posting: November 24, 1999PTEN and the tumor suppressor balancing act: PTEN turns out to be the first tumor suppressor to have phosphatase activity
Initial Posting: November 10, 1999The Salmonella battle plan: how Salmonella gain entry into human intestinal cells to grow and divide
Initial Posting: October 27, 1999RNA surveillance: watching the defectives: detecting premature stop codons in mRNA halts the production of dangerous truncated proteins
Initial Posting: October 13, 1999The compound eye of flies divulges evolutionary secrets: analysis of fly eye development may shed light on human eye disease
Initial Posting: September 29, 1999The neighborhood of Alzheimer's amyloid precursor protein: new clues on Alzheimer's pathology from other proteins linked to amyloid plaque formation
Initial Posting: September 15, 1999What do Lyme disease and syphilis have in common? two pathogenic spirochetes unexpectedly share an ATP synthase
Initial Posting: September 1, 1999Dissecting the mechanism of our internal clock: how living organisms tune in to the time of day
Initial Posting: August 18, 1999Ubiquitin links Parkinson's disease genes: a tantalizing link between two new genes
Initial Posting: August 4, 1999Plant genes contribute to a sexually transmitted disease? how plant genes found their way into a human parasite
Initial Posting: July 15, 1999Tutorial list