Month: September 2022

SO ENDS this double weekend on pine tree adaptations. This highly successful plant has adapted to harsh environments by a variety of highly sophisticated mechanisms at a biochemical and genetic level, expressed in every pine needle differently according to age and location, and adjusted seasonally. Never walk by a pine again without remembering that it is a master of its universe. View in LinkedIn

Tinker, tailor, writer, spy: the many lives of John le Carré, in his own words http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/sep/03/tinker-tailor-writer-spy-the-many-lives-of-john-le-carre-in-his-own-words?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

LARGE NON-CODING RNAs. "Although recent research has tried to evaluate the enormous regulatory networks of small RNAs, the role of thousands of longer transcripts is not yet clear." https://lnkd.in/euyhznh View in LinkedIn

FAMILY MEMBERS. "Interestingly, these large noncoding RNAs are found as interlacing and overlapping sense and antisense transcripts derived from introns or intergenic regions, which means that they stem from the preferred life habitat of persistent viral settlers." https://lnkd.in/euyhznh View in LinkedIn

"THE DOUBLE FUNCTION of genotype and phenotype is unique in biology, where we can find most organisms divided into genetic coding and protein-based bodies within their real lifeworld interactions." https://lnkd.in/eg6uePF View in LinkedIn

BIDIRECTIONAL INFORMATION. "In former times it was thought that the information transfer was a one-way road from genotype to phenotype but with epigenetics and RNA biology it became obvious that the reverse direction of information flow plays a crucial role in evolution, development and adaptational flexibility." https://lnkd.in/eg6uePF View in LinkedIn

"DNA CENTRISM, which investigates DNA as the dominant genetic information storage medium, might be wrong because the older RNAs are the dominant interactors as soon as transcription starts." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

BROAD ROLES. "Increasing knowledge about the abundance of different but compatible RNAs, most if not all of them in coacting processes via cooperation and suppression as well as amplification." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

RNA AS SOCIAL NETWORK. "In this world of life processes actively dominated by RNA, DNA is increasingly cast in the role of the “house” of genetic information storage, whereas the interacting RNAs seem to be the “social network” within this house." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

RNA STEM-LOOPS. "If we look at the “body” of these (RNA) social networks, we can see a secondary structure that is shared by all these RNA nucleic acid sequences: it is the stem-loop structure or, in the case of more complex agents such as tRNA or ribosomal subunits, the ligated consortia of such stem loops." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn