Nature was kind of lame today, and I was too lazy to look in other journals. I have just two things, and the first isn't even from a journal--it's something I've picked up in the last year that I think everyone should know.

Tumors and Cancers
How can you have a non-cancerous tumor? Well, tumor actually just means lump or swelling, but in modern ( Read more... )

Hey baby, let's you and me be cysteines and form a disulfide bond--I wanna get between your thios.

I get to present in two days on a paper that uses computational modeling to look at how various receptors (proteins in the cell membrane) transduce one kind of signal into another ( Read more... )

I wrote a letter to the Collegiate Times (Virginia Tech's student newspaper) today, concerning these two articles: (Evolution has no grounding, no benefits), (Hovind's theories 'backward'). Here it is:

In the March 2nd Collegiate Times, both of the letters to the editor about Dr. Hovind's talk miss the point ( Read more... )