The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the molecule that makes up...3903 days ago
'What is Life? A 21st Century Perspective' by Dr Craig Venter
One of the landmark events of 20th century science was...the Irish event that inspired the discovery of the structure of DNA. In February, 1943 o...editary information could be encoded in a chemical structure (aperiodic crystal) in living...3901 days ago
RNA interference (RNAi): by Nature Video
.... This animation explains how RNAi works and introduces the two...in players: small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs (miRN...ow RNAi can silence specific mRNAs to stop them from making pro...d like to know more about the structures and processes you see in thi...3890 days ago
DNA is packaged in a chromosome experiment
For more information, log on to- http://...four histone protein cores.[1] This structure is often compared to thread w...series of successively higher order structures to eventually form a chromos...da Olins [4] and their existence and structure (as histone octamers surround...3873 days ago
How DNA is Packaged (Advanced)
Each chromosome consists of one continuous thread-like molecule of DNA coiled tigh...ther. The end result is a fiber of packed nucleosomes known as chromatin. This structure, is then looped and further p...3873 days ago
How I discovered DNA - James Watson
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/james-watson-on-how-he-discovered-dna Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA. Talk by James Watson.3849 days ago
Memories Can Be Passed Down Through DNA
...tory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.3594.ht...developmental and environmental cues (and alternative cell states in unicellular orga...3644 days ago
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