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Welcome to A Sheekey Science Blog!

Biochemistry Articles:

Promoters as tumour suppressors: MYC vs. PVT1 for gene expression

GUARDIN the genome; a lncRNA unites p53, telomeres and miRNAs

Putting U in the tail of mRNA

Do ribosomes form queues: tailORFs regulate translation

Translating into the new year. A new role for eIF4A and more methyl modifications

ChIPping transcription: how to map R-loops

Trick and TREAT: Visualising mRNA turnover

Promote the enhancer to enhance the promoter

Loop it like cohesin

The sex chromosomes – Y is there a Y and the great X-scape

A sticky situation – pyruvate kinase aggregates when stressed

Imaging RNA in a cell with Corn

A bacterial aphrodisiac?

Butterfly wing patterns just got CRISPR

CARs designed to tackle cancer

Time to re-write the textbooks? How DNA is really packed inside the nucleus.

Get transcribed in style: The CTD that everyone’s talking about

Centrosomes, not centromeres, and error-correcting kinetochores

CRISPR just got snappy…

Book Reviews:

The Gene: An intimate history ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Revision techniques:

How to revise biology: remembering abbreviations

History:

Darwin’s cousin – the man who made a beauty map of Britain

Tag: c elegans

Slow and steady wins the race: uniting eEF2K, translation and lifespan

Out of all of Aesop’s Fables that I know, which I have now realised isn’t that many, “The tortoise and the hare” was always my favourite as a kid. Whilst the fable has been interpreted in different ways, I always took it to mean that slow and steady wins the race. But what race are […]

Read More Slow and steady wins the race: uniting eEF2K, translation and lifespan

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