So Darwin had A Big Idea ™ which has caused a ridiculous amount of debate/screaming/studying over the past 150 years. Everyone knows that, right? It’s caused so much uproar that recently the Texas school board has had near never-ending debates about the merits of teaching such Big Ideas to poor innocent children. But I (sarcastically) digress. My [...]
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So I’ve taken this week to focus on information required by my microbiology professor :”Know about biofilms and quorum sensing.” No detail on *what* I should know about those two huge topics, but I need to know about them. All of it, I guess. I guess I’ll work on just knowing what I can. Let’s [...]
So for the past few months I’ve been frantically studying for not the GRE, but for my preliminary exams for my PhD. I will therefore be adding blogs that answer potential questions from my prelims in addition to GRE questions. This should be fun for all! My advisors have been giving me “hints” (i.e. “know [...]
Proteins denature under heat stress. This denaturation of proteins causes the transcription of heat shock proteins (HSPs) to deal with the problem. The production of HSPs is rapid, and facilitates repair of the damaged cell. If the temperature remains high, heat shock proteins will remain at a steady-state level in the cell, which is higher [...]
When damage to DNA is sensed, the SOS signal induces over 20 unlinked genes. These genes cope with the DNA damage by remairing the damaged DNA, allowing DNA replication to proceed past the damaged site (translesion synthesis), and stalling cell division to allow time for DNA repair. Normally, the SOS response system is suppressed by [...]
Hello again! Today I’m going to tackle a broad, essay type question that pertains to bacterial movement: Chemotaxis. Chemotaxis is the ability of a bacterium to move along a concentration gradient, either towards an attractant or away from a repellent. The attractant or repellent is termed a chemoeffector, and is monitored by a system of [...]
Adrienne’s Life Goals (List started December, 1996 and updated each year since then) I’ve bolded the ones that I accomplished since I last updated the list last year. 1. Rollerblade in every major city in the world (Don’t know if I want to do this one any more or not. I’m really not all that [...]
I thought I’d write up a full update on what’s been going on with dad this week (for those of you who don’t know, Robert Cadman is my dad, Jonell Cadman is my mom. I’ve been asked that this week, you see. Just to keep things clear). Anyhow, dad came down with a virus last [...]
So once again, despite the sleeping pills and the amitriptyline and an active day, my phantom uterus has decided I don’t need to sleep. Sounds like a good time for story telling, huh? My endometriosis returned in June, 2008…a scant 6 months after extensive laparoscopic surgery to correct the problem. New town, new state, new [...]
So, I guess there were some articles published a while back that suggested that if mothers controlled what their kids ate, the kids got fat later in life. Um, what? This new study says that those articles were a bit off–instead they took a mother’s response to her child’s weight gain (more control over what [...]
