The announcement is here. The award goes to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase… more →
The RNA UnderworldArthur Hunt wrote 2 months ago: The announcement is here. The award goes to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 2 months ago: This is a follow-up of sorts to a previous essay on the subject of alternative polyadenylation. In … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 3 months ago: Carl Zimmer has a good article in the NY Times entitled “Where Did All the Flowers Come From? … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 7 months ago: It has become more apparent in recent years that the different aspects of gene expression – transcri … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 10 months ago: Awhile ago, I discussed a flurry of papers in Science that showed some curious aspects of transcript … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 10 months ago: While my yard is recovering from the ice, and I from today’s UK game, I thought I would toss o … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 11 months ago: RNA-based regulation is all the rage in biology today. The more familiar mechanisms involve small R … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 1 year ago: A group of interesting papers popped up on ScienceExpress this past week. These papers (by Core et … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 1 year ago: A couple of recent papers from the world of plant science. As always, enjoy. Evolution of Arabidops … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 1 year ago: Recently, I broached the subject of small RNAs, and mentioned that there were two general classes of … more →
Arthur Hunt wrote 1 year ago: The first reflex when coming across the title of this blog is, most likely, that it is a blog that m … more →