Case Study: Just for Fun

Sledging in childhood: just harmless fun?

Trolls just want to have fun

In two online studies (total N = 1215), respondents completed personality inventories and a survey of their Internet commenting styles. Overall, strong positive associations emerged among online commenting frequency, trolling enjoyment, and troll identity, pointing to a common construct underlying the measures. Both studies revealed similar patterns of relations between trolling and the Dark Te...

Mitochondria just wanna have FUN(DC1).

S everal years ago, the laboratory of Quan Chen discovered a new mitochondrial outer membrane protein required for mitophagy when it is induced by hypoxia (Liu et al, 2012). This protein, called FUNDC1 (Fun14 domain containing protein 1), is anchored in the mitochondrial outer membrane by three predicted transmembrane segments. The cytosolic N-terminal domain of FUNDC1 has a LIR (an LC3 interac...

Mitochondria just wanna have FUN(DC1)

S everal years ago, the laboratory of Quan Chen discovered a new mitochondrial outer membrane protein required for mitophagy when it is induced by hypoxia (Liu et al, 2012). This protein, called FUNDC1 (Fun14 domain containing protein 1), is anchored in the mitochondrial outer membrane by three predicted transmembrane segments. The cytosolic N-terminal domain of FUNDC1 has a LIR (an LC3 interac...

Just for fun: alcohol and the college student.