Comments on: Science Tuesday: One Cell’s Junk Is Another Cell’s Treasure

By: arizaphale

arizaphale — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:21:12 +0000

I was going ok until here

“in the centromere, which acts as the attachment point for spindle fibers during cell division.”

This is where you realise you are missing some essential prior information……

Nevertheless, I love a challenge and continued on….the analogy of the immune system was a satisfying conclusion as I ‘got’ that. Now……….
What is this all leading to? How will it help us make the world a better place etc etc etc??

btw: have you heard about some of ‘your lot’ who are trying to encourage female eggs to mutate into sperm and vice versa????? This is to enable same sex couples to genuinely reproduce apparently. Sounds dodgy to me……

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By: sarala

sarala — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:45:55 +0000

McClintock was one of my heroes. My Ph.D. was about S. cervisiae and telomeres. But that was in the dark ages. The CENP-B stuff is news to me. Keep on writing these. sarala's last blog post..Wordless Redux

By: CDV

CDV — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:40:55 +0000

Yeah, these science posts are either hit or miss. I could kind of tell this one was a miss, but you invest so much time…

Great story, Bobbie – did maize genetics for my Ph.D. and it’s a relatively small scientific community. I bet I may know of your friend. We maize folk are prone to corny jokes!

By: maryt/theteach

maryt/theteach — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:47:02 +0000

I’m with Harlekwin. And Bobbie “sorta” joke was pretty good. But you had me at transposons…

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By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:34:12 +0000

This has nothing at all to do with what you wrote, but with something triggered by the photo st the top.

I had a friend in Grad school who was a geneticist. Not surprisingly she worked with maize.

She became smitten with a guy who worked as an audiologist. He seemed “okay” but he didn’t seem to have that much in common with my friend. Then she explained it: “We both work with ears!”

(I wish this was just a joke, but it is a true story. They even lived happily ever after.)

Okay, silly mode off. Back to science.

By: Harlekwin

Harlekwin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:41:48 +0000

Remember that post I wrote about lurking last week? Um, yeah, you lost me at 'transposons.' Cool word, sounds intergalactic. "(Tf1) CENP-Bs"... it's not pillow talk, or is it? Harlekwin's last blog post..Setting Geekiness Aside