Thursday, March 5, 2009

For Science Nerdy Types Like Me

  • Incidence of Type II Diabetes May Be Directly Related to PCG-1 beta gene response to high levels of Fructose [Cell Metabolism] This gene activates another gene that regulates the production of fat by the liver. Fructose is broken down in the body in a different way that glucose is, and it is more readily convertible into fat. I read this while recovering from my high-fructose corn syrup Coke from this morning. I need to cut down, man!
  • Sexual reproduction in plants especially vulnerable to the effects of...
    (play Mozart's 5th Symphony's first 49 seconds here)



    ...............................Global Warming [Trends in Plant Science] Gosh, I am funny.
  • Drug Addiction and Epigenetic Mechanisms [Trends in Molecular Medicine
  • Looking at the evolutionary consequences of nonsense SNPs [Cell] I've been wondering about this for a long, long time. Nonsense mutations have, at [rare] occassions, actually been advantageous. 

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