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The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental
demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, andMaclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it wasproteins that served the function of carrying genetic information (with the very word protein itself coined to indicate a belief that its function was primary).
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Oswald Avery – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
September 19, 2016iPad Notebook export for The Gene: An Intimate History
August 13, 2016Quotes from the book I particularly liked:
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I use that last adjective—dangerous with full cognizance. Three
profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the
twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom,
the byte, the gene. Each is foreshadowed by an earlier century, but
dazzles into full prominence in the twentieth…each represents the irreducible unit—the building
block, the basic organizational unit—of a larger whole: the atom, of
matter; the byte (or “bit”), of digitized information; the gene, of
heredity and biological information.
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has long been a biologist’s conundrum: If there is no mechanism to “lock” fate forward, there should be no mechanism to lock it backward. If genetic switches are transient, then why isn’t fate or memory transient? Why don’t we age backward? This question bothered Conrad Waddington, an English embryologist working in the 1950s. When Waddington considered the development of an animal embryo, he saw the genesis of thousands of diverse cell types—neurons, muscle cells, blood, sperm—out of a single fertilized cell. Each cell, arising from the original embryonic cell, had the same set of genes. But if genetic circuits could be turned on and off transiently, and if every cell carried the same gene sequence, then why was the identity of any of these cells fixed in time and place? Why couldn’t a liver cell wake up one morning and find itself transformed into a neuron?
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Could one compare the “RNA catalog” of two different cells, and thereby clone a functionally relevant gene from that catalog? The biochemist’s approach pivots on concentration: find the protein by looking where it’s most likely to be concentrated…
it out of the mix. The geneticist’s approach, in contrast, pivots on information : find the gene by searching for differences in “databases” created by two closely related cells and multiply the gene in bacteria via cloning. The biochemist distills forms; the gene cloner amplifies information.
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Same but Different – The New Yorker
August 6, 2016Annals of Science MAY 2, 2016 ISSUE
Same but Different
How epigenetics can blur the line between nature and nurture.
BY SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
Same but Different by @DrSidMukherjee
http://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/breakthroughs-in-epigenetics Nice #epigenetics overview, from Waddington to histone marks & ant castes
Some overlap w/ the book
What Is a Previvor?: Newsletter: What Is a Previvor?Winter 2009
August 4, 2016QT:{{"
Cancer previvors are individuals who are survivors of a predisposition to cancer but who haven’t had the disease. This group includes people who carry a hereditary mutation, a family history of cancer, or some other predisposing factor. The term specifically applies to the portion of our community that has its own unique needs and concerns separate from the general population, but different from those already diagnosed with cancer.
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Fantasy, Futuristic, and Paranormal: WE OF THE CRAFT ARE ALL CRAZY
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
Poet Lord Byron once said, “We of the craft are all crazy. Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”
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http://ffnp.blogspot.com/2013/06/we-of-craft-are-all-crazy.html
BRCA1 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are normally expressed in the cells of breast and other tissue, where they help repair damaged DNA, or destroy cells if DNA cannot be repaired.
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