Facts, not opinions, link feedback loops to odor and pheromone signaling
November 3, 2015 Your sense of smell can make or break a relationship No it can’t! What Do We Actually Know About Pheromones? July […]
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Olfaction, ecology, and intelligence
“I should think we might fairly gauge the future of biological science, centuries ahead by estimating the time it will take to reach a complete […]
RNA-mediated repurposing in microbes and adapations in primate brains
Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion Excerpt: “…the C-terminal 47 amino-acids of ARHGAP11B (after lysine-220) constitute not only a unique sequence, […]
More than a bag of chemicals?
From Fertilization to Adult Sexual Behavior (1996) Excerpt: “Small intranuclear proteins also participate in generating alternative splicing techniques of pre-mRNA and, by this mechanism, contribute […]
We need pattern recognition, not a prologue
Prolegomenon “a preliminary discussion…; a prologue.” “… we need a mapping from genotype to phenotype, from phenotype to what is selected, and from what is […]
Genomic surveillance ends our world of RNA-mediated ecological adaptations
Why is this woman smiling? 1) Identifying Recent Adaptations in Large-Scale Genomic Data Senior author: Sabeti with co-author Rinn Excerpt: “As natural selection can only […]
RNA-mediated events found everywhere
Transcriptome-wide Mapping Reveals Widespread Dynamic-Regulated Pseudouridylation of ncRNA and mRNA Related articles Related blog posts on this site Reported as Scientists discover RNA modifications in […]
Sensing and secreting: Darwin’s ‘conditions of life’
Combinatorial Communication in Bacteria: Implications for the Origins of Linguistic Generativity Excerpt: “…in order to understand the evolutionary origins of human communication and language, the most […]
Humans can do what?
Science 21 March 2014: Vol. 343 no. 6177 pp. 1370-1372 Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli Reported as: Humans can distinguish at […]
Kohl’s biological laws: more misrepresentations
Neanderthals Leave Their Mark on Us JAN. 29, 2014 by Carl Zimmer Excerpt: “Both studies suggest that Neanderthal genes involved in skin and hair were […]