Old Dominion University/Biology 294=Genetics/Spring 2021/Rinehart-Kim Book Project:  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot As a group you should meet to discuss the book and answer these questions.  Numbered questions have a somewhat objective answer.  Questions with a… Continue Reading →

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 →

Virology Introduction Viruses have either a double stranded (DS) DNA, single stranded (SS) DNA, DS RNA, or SS RNA genome.  SS RNA viruses can be (+) with a 5’ to 3’ RNA genome, or (-) with a 3’ to 5’… Continue Reading →

Where Are We in Hunting for the Coronavirus’s Origin?: QuickTake was written by Jason Gale for the Washington Post just this year. He dives right in on the origin of the coronavirus that struck the world in late 2019 and… Continue Reading →

This article “Single-Dose Gene-Replacement Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy” studies the mutated gene encoding spinal muscular atrophy type 1 or SMA1 and the functional replacement of it. Fifteen infants where each given doses intravenously containing the SMN protein to see… Continue Reading →

Mendell, J. R. et al. Single-Dose Gene-Replacement Therapy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy. N Engl J Med. (18):1713-1722. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1706198. (2017)

     Primary research articles can also be called empirical research articles. They focus around original and new findings and are peer-reviewed. They include an introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references. They DO NOT include review articles. They are scholarly and… Continue Reading →

     When I was a kid every Saturday night without fail my family would sit down in front of our big flatscreen and browse through the channels. We usually settled on one of the three: CBS’s “Big Bang Theory”, some… Continue Reading →

This course taught me that cellular processes are complicated and our knowledge is only partial, but growing. I have learned a considerable amount of new information concerning how cells interact and why that builds on top of previously studied material…. Continue Reading →

     Researchers have found that amoebas called Dictyostelium discoideum and cancer cells are able to navigate mazes within 30-120 minutes using self-generated chemotaxis (Tweedy et al., 2020) which allows them to procure information regarding their surroundings. D. discoideum are cellular… Continue Reading →