Paradigms are meant to be broken. In the 1980s, biology students were taught "the one gene = one protein" dogma which has since stepped down from its pedestal... More
Nature has its secret ways. During the course of the 19th century, the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel worked out the basics of genetic inheritance as he crossbred pea plants. More
There is no life without a heart. And none without a beat. Which is why the heart is one of the first organs to be formed - albeit in a rudimentary fashion - very early on in life... More.
OMA orthology DB: major redesign and new features
2014-11-05
17th release of OMA Browser introduces user-centric redesign as well as several new functionalities: predictions of > 80 million Gene Ontology annotations using OMA orthologs; new "synteny view" for conserved genomic neighbourhoods across species, etc. (More)
Nature's imagination seems endless, and so is Man's. For as long as humans have existed, they have twisted Nature to meet their own needs. Wood has been used to keep them warm. Whale oil has been used to make light...More.
Pairing up is sometimes paramount to life. On the molecular scale, dimerization in our bodies is at the heart of many fundamental biological processes, such as the transduction of signals from the outside of a cell to the inside .. More.
Protein Spotlight: It did it its way
2014-07-31
Temperatures can get cold. And living organisms have to find ways of keeping themselves warm. Humans use clothes... More.