Pop quiz: What’s the difference between DNA, RNA and proteins? ISB researchers have created a video game that teaches secondary students (grades 6-12) the key tenets of molecular biology in a fun, interactive and engaging way, and can be used by teachers as a supplemental aide to assist with complex lessons.| Baliga Systems Education Experiences
Festival season is here—and apparently, mosquitoes got tickets too. If you have ever been the person in your friend group who ends a summer concert covered in large, itchy welts while everyone else goes home bite-free, you are not imagining things. Some people really are mosquito magnets. A new study, aptly titled “Blood, Sweat, and […] The post Do Mosquitoes Have a Taste for Beer? appeared first on Promega Connections.| Promega Connections
Mapping vulnerabilities in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, made of RNA, reveals a path to fighting more than COVID-19.| wertheim.scripps.ufl.edu
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.| New Atlas
An EMBL alumnus’ work with tRNA, along with support from EMBLEM, has led to a start-up, Umlaut.bio, positioned to aid drug development.| EMBL
mRNA transfection offers fast, precise, non-integrating expression—perfect for sensitive cells and urgent workflows.| Promega Connections
The RNA World Hypothesis is a concept put forth in the 1960s by Carl Woese, Francis Crick and Leslie Orgel. It proposes that earlier life forms may have used RNA alone for the storage of genetic material.| News-Medical
The preserved lung of an 18-year-old Swiss man has been used to create the full genome of the 1918 "Spanish flu," the first complete influenza A genome with a precise date from Europe. It offers new insights into the deadly pandemic that claimed the lives of up to 100 million people.| New Atlas
First there was the genetic revolution — the discovery that physical structures in the cell, including DNA and RNA, shape every organism. Now, says evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg…| Discovery Institute
This blog post is written as a dialogue between two imaginary characters, one of them representing myself (H) and the other a stubborn straw man (S). It is broken into four parts: the dogma, the insight, the decoy, and the clues. If you do not feel like reading the whole thing, you can skip to […] The post Breaking Free from Neural Networks and Dynamical Systems first appeared on Life Is Computation.| Life Is Computation
Simone Heber talks about studying RNA transport, organising the Bike Club at EMBL, and participating in the Ironman World Championship| EMBL
