MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Me Instead of U

It’s all foreign to me: learning through the language of genetics and molecular biology

Molecular Biology and Genetics are taught to undergraduate students at the second and third year level of their University of Canberra degrees. The assumption is, particularly for the third year students who have passed previous units/subjects in fundamental chemistry, biology and biochemistry, that the concepts and many of the details confronted in the more specialised discipline areas like ge...

Systems biology versus molecular biology

Systems biology and molecular biology can answer the same question in quite different ways, and frequently the answers given by one sub-discipline seem no answer at all to the other. For many molecular biologists, a systemslevel explanation leaves them feeling that, until the underlying molecular mechanisms are known, the approach is hopelessly superficial. For systems biologists, on the other ...

The 15th Iranian National Congress of Biochemistry & 6th International Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular biology of sarcomas

There are two types of sarcomas with regards to the type of molecular alterations: sarcomas with relatively simple, usually specific lesions and those with complex unspecific lesions. A molecular classification for sarcomas can therefore be proposed (Table 1). Recurrent chromosomal translocations: about 10-15% of all sarcomas bear a recurrent chromosomal translocation (Table 2). The most freque...

Molecular biology of cholesteatoma.

Cholesteatoma is a non-neoplastic, keratinizing lesion, characterized by the proliferation of epithelium with aberrant micro-architecture into the middle ear and mastoid cavity. The exact pathogenic molecular mechanisms behind the formation and propagation of cholesteatoma remain unclear. Immunohistochemical examinations of the matrix and perimatrix have considerably improved the knowledge of c...