Old Dominion University/BIOL294-Genetics/Rinehart-Kim/Romanov Project Internet Resources You may use other Internet sources here, but please cite any sources that you use unless they are one of the following. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004838 (You should be able to access the entire article.  You may… Continue Reading →

Reflection #3            After many weeks of preparation and research, our presentation had to be cancelled as no students had signed up for our topic. When I first heard of the cancellation, I was disappointed as my group, and I… Continue Reading →

Reflection #2            After presenting the project and receiving valuable feedback, I feel confident in the lesson and information we formed as a group. Dividing the whole group into smaller sections was a great idea, and this allowed for us… Continue Reading →

At this point of time, our group has done a good job of organizing the project. Our topic contains a lot of information, so everyone agreed that splitting into smaller groups would be beneficial to our work. We have split… Continue Reading →

Writing Assignment #5            My attendance at Tidewater Community College, and currently Old Dominion University, has been a long and stressful journey, filled with numerous late nights studying and completing assignments. Some days the work was easy, and other days… Continue Reading →

Writing Assignment #4            Periodontitis, commonly known as Gum Disease, is an infection of a person’s gums which could damage surrounding tissue and teeth. Varying factors such as, stress, smoking, and diabetes may be the cause of gum disease in… Continue Reading →

Messenger RNA (mRNA) expression levels may be calculated through various experimental methods. Through these experiments, the data obtained from them allow scientists to calculate the rates of synthesis and decay for mRNA within a cell. Unfortunately, due to the various… Continue Reading →

Baudrimont, A. et al. Multiplexed gene control reveals rapid mRNA turnover. Science Advances 3; https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1700006 (2017).