Posts Tagged ‘conservation’

Ian Frazier: Can the Horseshoe Crab Be Saved? : The New Yorker

Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

ANNALS OF CONSERVATION

BLUE BLOODS

The horseshoe crab is half a billion years old, but its existence may be threatened.

BY IAN FRAZIERAPRIL 14, 2014

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier

Can the Horseshoe #Crab Be Saved? Its blue, Cu-based blood contains #LAL which acts as a sensor for bacterial toxins
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/04/14/140414fa_fact_frazier

Rare tRNAs driving protein folding paper

Thursday, September 26th, 2013

The gist is that it is important for protein folding to choose optimal and non-optimal synonymous codons, at different locations.
http://www.nature.com/nsmb/journal/v20/n2/full/nsmb.2466.html

An interesting paper! Nice to see codon usage revisited again. Another revisiting of codons (my own) is at
http://papers.gersteinlab.org/papers/revisit-cai

Evolutionary conservation of codon optimality reveals hidden signatures of cotranslational folding
Sebastian Pechmann & Judith Frydman
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 20, 237–243 (2013) doi:10.1038/nsmb.2466

Attack of the Mutant Pupfish | Wired Science | Wired.com

Saturday, December 8th, 2012

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/mf-mutant-pupfish/

Obama Energy Policy Now Begins With Bountiful Supplies, Not Scarcity – WSJ.com

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

U.S. Redraws World Oil Map
Shale Boom Puts America on Track to Surpass Saudi Arabia in Production by 2020 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324073504578115152144093088.html

Spark Socket Connects Your Regular Old Light Bulbs to the Internet | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/spark-devices-connects-your-regular-old-light-bulbs-to-the-internet/

Power politics in Japan: A silent majority speaks | The Economist

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

http://www.economist.com/node/21554239