Hey Laia, welcome to the Forum!
"...speak English more or less!" ... I think someone's being very modest - your English is fantastic!
A genetic biologist hey? That's exciting...
What do you think about the discovery in May by a team of French researchers that mice can show the physiological expression of a genetic mutation that produces a spotty tail even if they don't carry the mutant gene?
Do you think it's reasonable to argue that the notion of the genome as a "list of parts" is now under threat? It could be suggested that the entire central dogma of genetics—that a gene is a self-contained stretch of a DNA molecule that encodes instructions for making an enzyme, and that genetic inheritance works via DNA—is now under revision. It is not that this picture is wrong, but it is certainly incomplete in ways that are challenging the textbook image of how genes work.
Discuss...
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And where else have you travelled to?
(that's much more exciting than genetics ;))
All the best,
AIL Staff
Posted: 2008-06-10 15:07:55