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Protein Spotlight Update: on the garden pea
by Protein Spotlight 15 May '14

15 May '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: on the garden pea ))))))))))))))) May 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The life sciences owe a lot to green peas. And perhaps even to the bishop of St Thomas Abbey in Brno - now the Czech Republic. It was there, in the 1850s, that Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) decided to undertake studies on heredity using mice. The bishop, however, disagreed with research involving animal sex, so his friar turned to the more innocent garden pea. Mendel spent the best part of a decade cross-breeding peas, while considering seven different phenotypic traits that seemed - to him - to be inherited independently: stem length, pod shape, pod colour, seed shape, flower colour, flower location and plant height. Little did he know that the results he so painstakingly jotted down, and which were published in 1866, would bring about a small revolution in the world of biology - although only in the first quarter of the 20th century. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/159/

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Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
by Protein Spotlight 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ))))))))))))))) January 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/999/

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Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
by Protein Spotlight 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ))))))))))))))) January 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/999/

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Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
by Protein Spotlight 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ))))))))))))))) January 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/999/

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Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
by Protein Spotlight 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ))))))))))))))) January 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/999/

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Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
by Protein Spotlight 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ))))))))))))))) January 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/999/

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Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
by Protein Spotlight 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet ))))))))))))))) January 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/999/

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Protein Spotlight Update: about water
by Protein Spotlight 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: about water ))))))))))))))) October 2013 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is no life without water. However, living beings go through life with given amounts of water inside them. Which is why there has to be a system that sustains this balance, and prevents too much water from flowing in, or indeed pouring out. Too large a volume of water in an organism, or too small a one, brings about serious deficiencies, which can lead to an organism’s death. So Nature devised a water barrier which it built around all its creations – a sort of seal that makes sure the volume of water we carry within us remains as stable as possible. When this barrier is deficient, though, individuals can suffer from skin disorders known as ichthyosis – or dry skin – to varying degrees: some mild, others lethal. Since the 1920s, it has been known that fatty acids have a role in mammalian skin hydration. Recently, researchers discovered how two lipooxygenases – epidermis-type lipoxygenase 3 and 12 – have a crucial role in the construction of the mammalian water barrier – and hence our aqueous well-being – thanks to their interactions with essential fatty acids. http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/153/

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5 Protein Spotlight Update: tipping the mind
by Protein Spotlight 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: tipping the mind ))))))))))))))) June 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talk about the other side of the coin. There is growing evidence that creativity may well go hand in hand with psychosis, in particular schizophrenia. Intuitively, it does not seem so far-fetched a notion. Just think of Salvador Dali, for example. Or Peter Sellers. But mental illness has been around for as long as humans, so why does evolution bother to preserve it? Precisely because of the advantages of a creative mind. Researchers are not suggesting that someone suffering from a mental disorder is inevitably a potential artist. Or vice versa. At least not quite… But what they are slowly demonstrating is that there seems to be a genetic predisposition for creativity and psychosis. And that this predisposition has exactly the same origin for both traits. More specifically, a protein known as neuregulin-1 may have the capacity – given the environment – to tip a mind into mental illness or genius. http://www.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/129/

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4 Protein Spotlight Update: tipping the mind
by Protein Spotlight 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

((((((((((((( Protein Spotlight Update: tipping the mind ))))))))))))))) June 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talk about the other side of the coin. There is growing evidence that creativity may well go hand in hand with psychosis, in particular schizophrenia. Intuitively, it does not seem so far-fetched a notion. Just think of Salvador Dali, for example. Or Peter Sellers. But mental illness has been around for as long as humans, so why does evolution bother to preserve it? Precisely because of the advantages of a creative mind. Researchers are not suggesting that someone suffering from a mental disorder is inevitably a potential artist. Or vice versa. At least not quite… But what they are slowly demonstrating is that there seems to be a genetic predisposition for creativity and psychosis. And that this predisposition has exactly the same origin for both traits. More specifically, a protein known as neuregulin-1 may have the capacity – given the environment – to tip a mind into mental illness or genius. http://www.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/129/

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