If serotonin does not exhaust you, it makes you stronger

Stress Response: Anything that Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

A new study shows that DNA damage not only elicits response pathways directly related to DNA repair but also induces a response that extensively overlaps with the pathogen infection pathway and confers resistance to both oxidative stress and heat shock.

Ecological and Evolutionary Benefits of Temperate Phage: What Does or Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger.

Infection by a temperate phage can lead to death of the bacterial cell, but sometimes these phages integrate into the bacterial chromosome, offering the potential for a more long-lasting relationship to be established. Here we define three major ecological and evolutionary benefits of temperate phage for bacteria: as agents of horizontal gene transfer (HGT), as sources of genetic variation for ...

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it".

If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It

Start of the lab: 2006 Size of the lab: Currently ten—size has fluctuated between five and 20 Research field: Systems and synthetic biology In 2005, I was working in the bioinformatics group of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont. The company was downsizing its research and development effort. At the same time, synthetic biology was emerging as a new discipline, and I wanted t...

If You Own It, It Exists; If You Love It, That Says Something about You, Not It: Semantically Conditioned Case in Finnish

In Finnish, the object of a transitive verb is case marked in one of two ways: with the ACCUSATIVE or PARTITIVE case. Generally speaking, all Finnish transitive verbs are compatible with both accusative and partitive marked objects. Basically, which case is assigned can affect the interpretation assigned to a verb or its object. This suggests an instance of free variation in Finnish; that there...