Tag: genetics
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#SFN2019 to 2012: Hiding the facts (6)
Oxygen International “All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception. “Deprive a…
Posted in Adaptations biophotonics Common Scents Thoughts Light Energy Model Organisms Physics RNA interference
Light-activated morphogenesis and behavior (1)
Summary: Optogenetics combines the power of genetics with light stimulation. We introduce you to the fundamentals of optogenetics, focussing on cutting-edge methods for controlling biological…
They are what they eat, and so are we
Shall we use the honeybee as a model for the epigenetic effects of olfactory/pheromonal input across species from microbes to man?
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.