It’s Friday again – have a look at BioTechniques’ Lab Grammys 2012: Science Parody of the Year (with thanks to American Biotechnologist).
Hearing loss can be caused by advancing years, or by head injuries or loud noises, all of which lead to loss of the sensory hair cells. A new gene therapy could have potential to replace the damaged hair cells, but isn’t likely to be the answer by itself. The study was published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Hints & tips from Nucleic Acids Research: FusionAnalyser – a new graphical, event-driven tool for fusion rearrangements discovery.
Hints & tips from American Biotechnologist: Top 8 reasons for high background noise on your western blot.
It’s Friday, so have a break and play the Genome Engineering game for May – Cut It Out.
The ‘body clock’ or circadian rhythms controls things like alertness, sleep patterns, appetite and hormones, and travelling across time zones or working nights can disturb it. Researchers from the University of Sydney and from the Salk Institute have worked on how the genes behind this are controlled and their research was published in Nature.
