Mapping Chromosome Organization 1 by 1/ Cell, Sept. 24, 2015 (Vol.163, Issue 1) - A Cell paper published by Bas van Steensel of Netherlands Cancer Institute and his colleagues reports an exciting new ...
Dogs vs. Hyenas? Chew on this! - 2 Minute Thesis - Even though they evolved 40 million years and thousands of miles apart, dogs and hyenas converged on the same design for their bone-crushing jaws - h...
The asymmetrical clamp-loader pentamer (green, with pink ATP) spirals around a DNA double helix (yellow) and binds the sliding-clamp trimer (brown) around the DNA in an open lock-washer position....
KSR2 Mutations Are Associated with Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Impaired Cellular Fuel Oxidation
Sadaf Farooqi and colleagues reveal how they sequenced more than 2,000 individuals with severe early onset obesity to identify mutations in the gene KSR2. They find that these mutations lead to impair...
Squid-inspired ‘invisibility stickers’ could help soldiers
Squid-inspired ‘invisibility stickers’ could help soldiers. Squid are the ultimate camouflage artists, blending almost flawlessly with their backgrounds so that unsuspecting prey can’t detect them. Us...
2012 Three Minute Thesis Runner Up - Billie Ganendran
Billie Ganendran (Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Science, UNSW Canberra), runner-up in the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition, gives her presentation - "The curious mix of peng...
How do we localize pain? Touch has an area of high spatial resolution, called a fovea, at the fingertips. In contrast, pain is considered to lack any equivalent to the tactile fovea on the fingertips....
The Biggest Shark in the World. Meet the Whale Shark, the biggest fish in the world. Alex and the crew talk to Jesse Cochran and Alex Kattan, two Marine Biologists at KAUST who study the unique ecosys...
