Genes and the social network

Networking is important for everybody...

Yes,including them too.

Experiments and long weekends!

Thanks to Dr. Alyson Kelvin for the cartoon idea :)

"Why do grad students think experiments don't run on long weekends?"

and this is why;

Everybody goes, even the cell lines... :P

How to make your PI happy?

Happy...unhappy...happy...unhappy...
and  this inconsistency may keep up going for a long time.
In order to get rid of this cycle and to stay mentally healthy then better to go with data [Survival kit#1].
:P

Is there a loneliness gene?

Recent studies show that chronic loneliness is affecting the expression of some genes and this is increasing the risk of developing several diseases.

DNA repair

Info for non-science readers:
DNA repair is an important process in the cell. 
Damage to DNA is recognized and then corrected by several molecules.

Exons and Introns: Taking the attendance in the genome

Taking the attendance in the genome may be disappointing for some guys at least for the time being. 
They are there but not really :)


Info for non-science readers:
Exon: Coding sequence of DNA present in mature messenger RNA.
Intron: Non-coding sequence of DNA removed from mature messenger RNA prior to translation
[GeneReviews [Internet], Illustrated glossary]

Collateral damage of next generation sequencing

Thanks to Dr. Ece Gamsiz for the cartoon idea!

Collateral damage of next generation sequencing is causing enormous data accumulation which affects :P computational biologists and bioinformaticians.


Biological data production is in terabytes and increasing everyday.

How to see the significant difference?

Thanks to Dr. Nicola Neretti for the cartoon idea :)

The secret of experimental design

"The secret of experimental design" was published at PLoS BLOGS
Thanks to Dr Slim for the cartoon idea!

Different ways of gene expression

There are always different ways of gene expression in the nature, no limits.

Sequence analysis: Just analyze me please!

Info for non-science readers:

The term "sequence analysis" in biology implies subjecting a DNA or peptide sequence to sequence alignment, sequence databases, repeated sequence searches, or other bioinformatics methods on a computer. [Wikipedia]

Rare variants

It is too early to know!

(click on the image for bigger version)

What does PhD mean?  Sometimes it may be too early to learn the truth. 

Happy Mother's Day

Lab Story: "I love you"

It is better to know in advance how many cycles will be done...

It is always good to know the number of cycles a head of time.

Tree of life

Deep sequencing?...Does it hurt?

Info for non-science readers:
SNPs are one of the most common types of genetic variation. A SNP is a single base pair mutation at a specific locus, usually consisting of two alleles (where the rare allele frequency is >1%). SNPs are found to be the etiology of many human diseases.
SNP genotyping is the measurement of genetic variations of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between members of a species. It is a form of genotyping, the measurement of the genetic variation more generally.
Exome sequencing is an efficient strategy to selectively sequence the coding regions of the human genome to identify novel genes associated with rare and common disorders.
RNA-seq is a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics refers to the use of high-throughput sequencing technologies to sequence cDNA in order to get information about a sample's RNA content, a technique that is quickly becoming invaluable in the study of diseases like cancer.

[Wikipedia]

Lost in transcription

That's what bioinformaticians do...

Thanks to Dr. Dunn for the cartoon idea!

Anesthesia of a DNA

Before and after the anesthesia...