Analysis of Rhesus Monkey Genome Uncovers Differences with Humans, Chimps
Credit: Gopinath Sricandane For image reprints, contact the photographer at: gopi@photoessays.net
Scientists Discover Structure of Gateways to Gene Control
This artist's illustration shows a portion of the genome. A long DNA molecule (red cord) is wrapped up into nucleosome structures with a histone-protein core (white spheres). The gateway to gene transcription spans the control switch (coils) on the left nucleosome to the beginning of the gene (green arrow) on the right nucleosome." Credit: Christina Ullman
Wilson to Represent Eberly College of Science as Student Marshal
Better Way Found to Locate DNA Packing Proteins in Genome
Methane-Belching Bugs Inspire a New Theory of the Origin of Life on Earth
More that twenty years ago, Penn State's James G. Ferry first isolated Methanosarcina acetivorans from anaerobic sediment beneath a kelp bed. Ferry and Christopher House, also at Penn State, have helped uncover the biochemistry this microbe uses to make vinegar out of carbon monoxide. Now they suggest that this a primitive version of this unique biochemistry may have fueled the metabolism of the first life forms on earth.
Undersea Microbes Active but Living on the Slow Side
Scientists Sequence DNA of Woolly Mammoth
Large numbers of tusks in the permafrost museum in Khatanga demonstrate the abundance mammoth once had in the Northern hemisphere. Credit: Debi Poinar, McMaster University
Eberly College of Science Co-op Student of the Year Named
Eberly College of Science Co-op Student of the Year Named
Exercise Helps Recovery from Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
Andrea Mastro
Subscribe to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology