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Mother Nature loves that party rock

dendrite — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:59:19 +0000

… but you knew that already. Here’s an example of how a phenomenon known as exon shufflin’ can lead to evolutionary diversity (here involving SNAP25‘s exon 5a variant for early brain development while the exon 5b variant is used later in development) . Perhaps we owe our awesome, ahem, “higher” cognitive abilities to this ancient exon duplication … video below notwithstanding.

Would you give this guy access to your genome?

dendrite — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:17:29 +0000

hacked from animals talking in all caps

My genome is full of you

dendrite — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:08:36 +0000

Embodied brain

dendrite — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:02:32 +0000

Do they want my genome?

dendrite — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:02:20 +0000

Genetic testing across the US of A

dendrite — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:43:49 +0000

Having some fun here learning to visualize data using Processing. Here is a map showing the relative number of genetic testing laboratories. California is listed with the most (35 labs). *Note, these are genetic testing laboratories which may service a wide range of health care providers and clinics.

Helix as hug

dendrite — Mon, 23 May 2011 23:27:15 +0000

My father’s genes unfold within me …

dendrite — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:43:44 +0000

Have you ever suddenly realized, “OMG, I’m just like my dad (or mom)!” Oh, the horror .. the horror. Here’s John Updike from A Month of Sundays:

Also my father, who in space-time occupied a stark room of a rest home an hour distant, which he furnished with a vigorous and Protean suite of senility’s phantoms, was in a genetic dimension unfolding within me, as time advanced, and occupying my body like, as Colette had written to illustrate another phenomenon, a hand being forced into a tight glove.

Fun with memegenerator.net

dendrite — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:59:20 +0000

Looking for love in the genomic age (seen in the subway …)

dendrite — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:28:05 +0000