What do other people with training in #genetics or #molecularBiology think of the use of #DNA as a metaphor? I've always found it super irritating, but maybe other scientists love it?
For example, I'm now seeing it used in the context of social movement organizing and find this kind of usage very distracting, even though the concept they're trying to describe probably makes a lot of sense.
Quick cell biology question. If you might know somebody who knows, could I get a boost? :boost_requested:
I think I've heard of techniques where you can replace a cell's DNA with the DNA of another cell, and have the recipient cell behave / develop like the donor. I also think I remember there being limits on how closely related the two cells have to be in order for this to work.
Does anybody know what the limits of this technique are? Or how to learn more about it generally? I don't even know what to search for. :)
More generally, I'm trying to get a sense for how much of a cell's behavior is determined by the gene sequence vs. the cellular mechanisms that interpret it.
"reminder that dolphin sperm has extremely robust chromatin such that it has even been able to fertilize rat eggs, which is like a whole taxonomic family removed.
This may be a silly question, but with the understanding that virus genetics are contained within our own genome, is it possible for new viral genetics to be read/expressed as the original virus, causing the body to attack itself during early development? For example, a woman today has a viral infection, it affects one of her eggs, she becomes pregnant, and the fetus' immune system attacks the affected proteins causing it to fail to construct some vital organ. I would love to understand this more. #biology#virus#dna#rna#mutation#genetics#gene#protein#genome
The gist here is to model a genetic network as a dynamical system with two attractor states (in this case, it's leukemia and the states are apoptosis on-versus-off).
I'm looking for leads to papers that apply this type of approach to model genetic networks (not neural circuits) that have something a bit more to do with the brain; ideally not cancer.
(This is not my field). Huntington's? Fragile X? Anything neuron related?
Shout out to my fellow biologist/geneticist/neuroscientist, do you have notes and write your papers like this?
I don't and I hardly take notes any more for anything...I laid the data in front of me and used them as triggers to my memories to related literatures....this part is not very methodic..if I had notes for my thoughts, it could speed up the process better..
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of moderate means and questionable taste
I've been around for a long, long year
I've seen too much and I've lost faith
Apologies to the Rolling Stones but I've updated it for the general malaise that is #GenX life in the early 21st century. General #introduction post here as I've just migrated from mastodon.social. I'm the homebody type who's very content to just curl up with a good #book. I enjoy #movies and most types of #music. Love good #food but I have a lifelong hatred of olives. I'm mostly here to meet fun, funny people and have a good time while taking the serious stuff in small doses for the preservation of whatever sanity I have left. I imagine I'll update this as more things occur to me to add. Below are some more specific interest. Glad to be here and beige bless!
Some deaf children in China can hear after gene treatment
"Here’s the easy game Li Xincheng has been playing at home. Her mother says a few words. Then the six-year-old, nicknamed Yiyi, repeats what she heard. “Clouds, one by one, blossomed in the mountains,” says her mother, Qin Lixue, while covering her mouth so Yiyi can’t read her lips. “Clouds, one, one, blossomed..."
The Visualizing Biological Data 2024 workshop (VIZBI), March 13-15 in Los Angeles, looks very interesting. Speakers will discuss visualization in areas like #genetics, #cellBiology and #ecology. Participants can present a poster and lightning talk. Mine will cover neuVid, which simplifies video production with #Blender3D. Here it is showing some #Drosophila neurons from the FlyWire data set, using #AI to parse my natural language description of the video.
Not sure, but feels like one thing about genes that is generally not popular knowledge is that it is all about interacting chemical gradients over time. So uhh if trying an analogy here… more like building sounds with a synth than blueprints of a building. Maybe someone actually expert in this has a better popularization? #genetics#biology
Come on over to #StainedGlassWoman this week and have a look at what the future of #HRT might very well look like with me! We're going to dive deep into our genetic code and our deep evolutionary ancestry to have a look at DMRT-1, an incredible piece of genetic code that will someday allow our bodies to transform in ways that boggle the mind.
Imagine if hormonal transition was just one or two injections. In an entire lifetime.
For @molecologist, I wrote up the huge @EvolLetters synthesis of genetic diversity data that'll be in textbook treatments of genetic drift for years to come
The glaciers of the last ice age left their mark on the genetic diversity of species across the globe
NEW PAPER! "GenomeMUSter mouse genetic variation service enables multi-trait, multi-population data integration and analyses" from my colleages at The Jackson Laboratory where I am interning this summer 🌞
This is a HUGE meta-analysis of genetic research in mice (#GRCm38) with a new searchable interface for #genetics researchers
How Old Can Humans Get? - Scientific American (archive.is)
An expert on aging thinks humans could live to be 1,000 years old—with a few tweaks to our genetic “software”
Genetically modified trees could mean more sustainable wood (www.popsci.com)
Gene editing can streamline the process of wood fiber production, by modifying poplar trees to reduce the amount of their hard lignin.