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  • A les­son from the comb jelly, deep-sea bac­te­ria, and...

    A les­son from the comb jelly, deep-sea bac­te­ria, and...

    October 14, 2024January 26, 2026

    by Janie — I some­times google "Small Things Con­sid­ered + a bi­o­log­i­cal term of choice" look­ing for older ar­ti­cles, to see if any par­a­digms have changed in the span of a decade or so. In do­ing so, I came across this post from 2010 on plas­malo­gens, mem­brane lipids with an ether bond link­ing the glyc­erol...

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  • Plas­malo­gens Have Evolved Twice

    Plas­malo­gens Have Evolved Twice

    August 30, 2010January 5, 2026

    by Howard Goldfine — Some bi­ol­o­gists go bliss­fully through life with­out pay­ing much at­ten­tion to lipids. They do this at their own risk, be­cause there are in­nu­mer­able things to be learned from their study,

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