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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: science

Superheroes may be fiction, but is there a future for superfoods?

  Now, those of you familiar with my favourite quote from the 2000 film “Miss Congeniality” will surely remember how Cheryl misinterprets this question. The thing is I would too. My perfect date would be fresh with a soft and chewy texture. In my case, I refer to the fruit. But not only do dates […]

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Life in the lab as a present-day Victorian

This summer I went back in time, literally, although only by ~8 hours, as I jetted off to Victoria, BC in the South-West of Canada to spend 10 weeks working in Dr John Burke’s lab at the University of Victoria. The lab focuses on understanding the regulation of proteins involved in lipid signalling and use […]

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Could memory editing become mainstream?

Do you remember, the 21st night of September? Do you remember the lyrics? Or would you want to forget ever hearing this song? (I hope the latter isn’t the case). Well, the science of memories continues to be of great interest and has played major roles in a variety of pop culture, whether through memory […]

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“Mean Girls” meets Biochemistry – which protein ‘clique’ are you?

If I learnt anything from watching the 2004 film “Mean Girls”, it is that where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial. Okay, whilst not entirely true, the film explains how at high school, everyone fits into different cliques and these dictate the group of people you sit with at lunch; you have your Freshman, […]

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Are you looking for NSAA and/or A level Biology/Chemistry tuition?

Memorising facts for exams these days is not enough anymore. Exam techniques including, pulling out the key points from a question, structuring your answers and the dreaded “thinking outside of the box”, are instead being tested. This added stress can become unbearable, but there are strategies and steps that can be taken to circumvent this. […]

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

Many of you are probably familiar with the tree of life that Charles Darwin used when explaining his theory of evolution, but maybe not so much with his own family tree. It would not at all be surprising to see that Darwin had cousins but neither would it to see that one was Francis Galton. […]

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Centrosomes, not centromeres, and error-correcting kinetochores

Not only is this title a painful reminder of a mistake I made in my exam this year, but simply wrong since centromeres will still be included in discussion! So, just to clarify, centrosomes are the organelles from which microtubules (MTs)* arise from, whilst centromeres are regions on chromosomes that attach to MTs via the […]

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Recent Posts

  • Welcome to The Sheekey Science Show!! October 21, 2020
  • Superheroes may be fiction, but is there a future for superfoods? November 6, 2019
  • Life in the lab as a present-day Victorian September 26, 2019
  • Could memory editing become mainstream? August 14, 2019
  • A weight loss drug targeting the mRNA demethylase, FTO? April 22, 2019

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