“I wanna be a toy”

If you wanna be loved

We enjoyed reading Jordan Raff’s My word article [1], in which he expressed dismay at the lack of interest the British public take in science and contrasted this with his experiences in the US. He also indicated that local politicians and school children did not visit scientific institutions in the UK and that his colleagues were less than enthusiastic when confronted with the idea that such vi...

'I wanna be like Mike (or Gary, or Fiona)!' by Caveman.

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

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...