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Blogxperiment: science article popularization with Contents
The question of the blogxperiment series is: What are the good ways to summarize peer-review articles for a more general readership and transmit scholarly knowledge and literature? After showing an...
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The power links of the mitochondriologist focusing on human mitochondrial...
I am hanging around stem cells all the time, while there are as many interesting things happening with mitochondria too. So I asked my former supervisor, Gábor Zsurka excellent mitochondrial geneticist...
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Mitochondria in the tubes of stem cells poster on Nature Precedings
Back in June I was a happy beta tester of Nature Precedings, Nature’s own free preprint server. I uploaded a poster of our group called Intact mitochondria migrate in membrane tubular network...
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“Mitochondrial Oasis Effect”: fasting => NAD+ up in mitos => cell survival
Quick storytelling through citations (alert from Jim Hardy, thanks): Cell: Nutrient-Sensitive Mitochondrial NAD+ Levels Dictate Cell Survival A major cause of cell death caused by genotoxic stress is...
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Unpublished SENS3 conference report for mainstream scientists!
Recently I wrote a meeting report on the SENS3 conference for a very prestigious science journal, but finally it did not go through the filters. I knew that the chance for publication is small as the...
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inF.A.Q. for 23andMe: what if I have mitochondrial DNA from Pa?
Have you ever asked any important but infrequently asked questions? Have you ever heard about the first personal genome service by the biotech startup 23andMe? Here is an inF.A.Q. addressed to this...
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23andMe on the biparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA and more
In my former blog post inF.A.Q. for 23andMe: what if I have mitochondrial DNA from Pa? I meditated on 23andMe‘s capability of detecting paternal mitochondrial DNA in their customers’ saliva with their...
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The first human genome project: mitochondrial DNA, 16.6kb, 1981, Cambridge
When I had worked on my MSc thesis in biology on the relation of human mitochondrial mutations and aging the paper I used most frequently was Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome...
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MitoWheel 1.0: the human mitochondrial genome just got visual!
Your 16569 basepair long human mitochondrial genome does a lot for you and tells a lot about you. It encodes protein subunits playing crucial role in the production and conversion of ATP, the body’s...
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Can you tell a good article from a bad based on the abstract and the title...
Many times people only have access to the abstract of peer-review articles, and nothing more. There are different abstract styles (sometimes they’re going too far or on the contrary) in the literature...
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The MitoWheel blog keeps you updated!
MitoWheel is a cool graphical interface of the circular human mitochondrial genome, which helps the user to get familiar with the mito DNA by searching, clicking and tailoring it. I introduced you...
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The fingerprints of a mighty creator in Proteomics, impact factor >5
Creationism/intelligent design is not really an issue for me as I am a biologist working with mitochondria and stem cells, also a life extension supporter, whose angle on things and projections are...
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The eccentric Complex II of the mitochondrial respiratory chain
Complex II, otherwise termed Succinate-coenzyme Q reductase is an exotic member of the electron transport chain at least in 3 ways: unlike the other enzymes it is part of the TCA-Krebs-Szentgyörgyi...
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The human mitochondrial consensus genome sequence by Robert Carter
For historical reasons the standard human mitochondrial sequence, the Revised Cambridge Reference Sequence (rCRS) is a reconstruction of a single European individual’s mtDNA and contains several rare...
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Very well informed Stanley Bing on life extension
Huffington Post, Fortune’s Stanley Bing: The Next Big Thing? Please pay extra attention to the language here (especially transmogrification). Human genome schmutz: Nobody wants to get old or worse,...
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Mitowheel upgrade: phylogenetics in motion
Gábor Zsurka has built some killer functions into Mitowheel, the human mitochondrial DNA visualization tool: - compare GenBank‘s circa 3000 fully sequenced human mitochondrial genome to the revised...
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Mitowheel now helps you design PCR primers for mitochondrial DNA!
Gábor Zsurka, scientist and developer made another upgrade on our favorite human mitochondrial DNA visualization tool, MitoWheel: this time allele frequencies at polymorphic positions are included in...
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Leigh syndrome – where are those mitochondria replacement therapies?
Dear Sir: I came across your blog after reading Stanley Bing’s recent article in Fortune Magazine. I will try to be brief. I have a 4 year old son who was diagnosed 1.5 years ago with a form of Leigh’s...
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Visualize 23andMe haplogroup defining SNPs with Mitowheel!
Last Friday 23andMe came up with Haplogroup Tree Mutation Mapper which is the first experimental feature that can be instantly tested by biogeek customers (a large portion of the company’s customer...
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