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The Construction of a Bait for Use in a Yeast Two-Hybrid System
to Screen for Protein-Protein Interactions with GlcNAc-TV
There are hundreds of thousands of different proteins within the human body, each interacting with hundreds of the
others to produce the intricate network of machinery which allow us to live and breathe. One such protein is
GlcNAc-TV. Come read about one study designed to examine the link between this protein and an increased metastatic
potential of some prostate cancers.
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The Evolution of Altruism
An African wild dog voluntarily “babysitting” the pups of a pack, while the pack’s hunters search
for food ; a bird giving an alarm call to warn others of an approaching hawk ; a man jumping into a swimming pool to save a drowning stranger.
What do all of these situations have in common? They are examples of altruism - an action in which
one organism sacrifices something to benefit another. Learn about the theories of how this seemingly
unbeneficial behavior arose.
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Gaia and Selfish Genes
The origin of life on Earth and its subsequent evolution into a sentient being is among the most complex
and controversial of any in the world of science. The question as to which level evolution primarily
operates on has many possible answers, with adamant supporters for each. Examine two diametrically
opposed views and decide for yourself.
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Abnormalities in the Determination of Right-Left Symmetry
It is simply amazing that the fetal development of a human child, a biological machine with hundreds
of billions of interworking parts, usually proceeds error free. When developmental problems do arise
however, few are as enlightening into the process of embryogenesis as those involving mistakes in the
detemination of the child's left-right axis.
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MMR and Autism: Causality or Coincidence? In 1998, a group of British doctors published a report in which they implied that the MMR vaccine may be responsible for a recent increase in the incidence of autism. Is there an actual cause and effect relationship between the two, or has the subsequent controversy only been the result of misinformation? |
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A Mathemtical Model for the Mating Preferences of H. sapiens. Three leading researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the intersexual dynamics of socially advanced higher mammals present a mathematical description of how individuals view potential mates. |
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