Talmudic Question #190
Which cause more severe diseases in humans, RNA or DNA viruses?
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TWiM 235: Green algae and fatty acids
In this episode, how DNA of giant viruses has contributed extensively to the genome of green algae, and inhibition of E. coli virulence by a metabolic product of arachidonic acid in the intestinal epithelium.
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TWiM 230: Ancient bacterial DNA
In this episode of This Week in Microbiology, control of Campylobacter in raw chicken by zinc oxide nanoparticles in packaging material, and Salmonella enterica genomes from a 16th century epidemic in Mexico.
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"May I ask you a question?"
by Elio — My first lecture (in 1958, long ago) was to medical students and the subject was DNA. I felt privileged to be given the task to talk about this subject, which was born in its modern incarnation not many years earlier.
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Need protection? Hire a virus! – Part Deux
by Jamie Henzy — Readers of STC are likely aware that sequences from viruses infecting a host can sometimes wind up inserted into the host chromosomal DNA, even being passed on to offspring if the insertion occurs in an egg or sperm cell. This happens most frequently with retroviruses, which insert into host DNA as part of...
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What Grains Tell...
Pictures Considered #23 by Christoph — In #2 of our 'Pictures Considered' series Elio had considered the iconic autoradiograph by John Cairns showing an intact circular Escherichia coli chromosome. We had a brief discussion in the comments to that post whether Cairns' autoradiograph proves...
