NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 29th May 2006 07:34 PM GMT] The New Yorker delves into a scientific fraud this week (see below). This one, upward of five decades old, was uncovered largely by ornithologist Pamela Rasmussen, an assistant prof at Michigan State who is co-author of ?Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide,? reviewed here. In preparing the guide, she took to task one Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, member of the Royal Fusiliers,... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 22nd May 2006 01:56 PM GMT] Four papers released online today detail some of the work from David Allis? group and others that?s detailed in our recent article on chromatin remodeling. In two Nature papers released today, Allis, a Rockefeller chromatin researcher, along with postdocs Joanna Wysocka and Tomek Swigut and a team led by structural biologist Dinshaw Patel, from Memorial Sloan Kettering, report on BPTF, the largest subunit of the nucleosome remodeling... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 11th May 2006 08:14 PM GMT] Just the other day I was talking to a researcher on the phone whose work had unexpectedly intersected with nucleosome remodeling. I get the feeling it?s not an uncommon occurrence. I?ve enjoyed following the explosion of research on this topic in the past decade, in part because the analogies are irresistible.
As the now pat intro to numerous papers on the subject says, with the sequence of the human genome at hand, scientists are... Click to continue
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