Monthly Archives: July 2020

EARLIER POST HERE: Thank you, M. The time-line for number of COVID-19-related deaths [see figure below] is also very intriguing — in a country that never imposed any restrictions — no face masks, children stayed in school, and the economy … Continue reading →

For those GEITP-ers that remain enthusiastic about “global warming”, here is a semi-lay summary of an article that reently appeared in Sci Reports [Nature]. This is evidence of global warming — except this occurred 1500 to 2000 years ago.   … Continue reading →

Early on, in genetic studies, the concept (learned in grade school, these days 😊) was that “DNA is transcribed into RNA, which is translated into protein.” Then, it became established that “DNA —> primary transcript, which then results in messenger-RNA … Continue reading →

As the previous GEITP pages email described, in the early days of genetic studies, the concept (learned in grade school 😊) was that “DNA is transcribed into RNA, which is translated into protein.” Then, it was established that “DNA —> … Continue reading →

Today’s topic in these GEITP pages is an excellent example of controversial conclusions (over more than two decades) able to be overturned by additional experiments; this is an example of how rigorous science is supposed to correct itself. Osteocalcin (OCN) … Continue reading →

This brief essay might be helpful and informative — at least to some of you. 😊 Where vaccination has been especially effective, it is because the vaccine was specific enough, and widely enough used, to artificially create “herd immunity”. The … Continue reading →

This excellent, outstanding review of “polygenic adaptation” [see attached] — strikes at the very heart of gene-environment interactions, i.e. given an environmental signal (or any alteration in the environment), how does the genome (genetic architecture) change in order to better … Continue reading →

With the pandemic [caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)] continuing worldwide, many labs are competing to find appropriate animal models to study coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) attributed to the virus. The optimal animal model will, of course, depend … Continue reading →

The topic of these GEITP pages today is developmental biology. The body plan of mammalian embryos emerges through interactions of sequential cell-fate decisions and morphogenetic events — which have been difficult to observe in humans — until now. Human embryonic … Continue reading →

These GEITP pages do not usually focus on cancer drug therapy, but this article presents a new approach to the problem of attacking cancer cells. A new precision medicine — targeting the cancer cell’s ability to repair its own DNA … Continue reading →