February 2012
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WatchFlying Drosophila orient to sky polarization. Weir PT, Dickinson MH. Curr Biol. 2012 Jan 10;22(1):21-7.
This Valentine’s Day, Sick Papes brings you an exclusive heart-wrenching interview with one of the world’s most lovable biologists: Peter Weir of the California Institute of Technology. In last month’s issue of Current Biology, Peter brought readers to their knees with his seductive...
Dank De Novo Draft: The Purple Kush Genome
van Bakel, H., Stout, J., Cote, A., Tallon, C., Sharpe, A., Hughes, T., & Page, J. (2011). The draft genome and transcriptome of Cannabis sativa Genome Biology, 12 (10) DOI: 10.1186/gb-2011-12-10-r102
Vision 1. left, Purple Kush. right top, enzymatic pathways for cannabinoid synthesis. right bottom, THC, the primary cannabinoid in Kush, and Cannabidiol, the primary cannabinoid in Hemp.
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"Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular...
We can all think of a phenomenon in biology that is so incredible and complicated that if we didn’t know better, the hands of God would be a reasonable hypothesis to account for its origin. In one of his essays published in Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould marveled at his favorite bizarre and complex “perfection” in a certain species of Lampsilis mussels. Believe it or not,...
