Snippets of science by GC.
Issue 13: 3.11.10 - 9.11.10.

Item 1, keywords: H2, H3, H4 histone acetylations and methylations, gene architecture, STIM1 gene.

I had intended this item to be based on a paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, "Reciprocal intronic and exonic histone modification regions in humans". The paper has not defeated me. I am still thinking about it, and from time to time circle this paper, viewing it physically as I might a coiled cobra. In lieu of my unwritten text extracting essentials from this paper I offer NSMB my keywords of their work and an illustration I created when I was thinking in another context about where computing might go as it moves toward consciousness. Go to Conscious computing. Thanks to NSMB for their intellectual headache. And in return I offer them mine. NSMB's reference for this paper is DOI:10.1038/nsmb.1924. Good luck!

Conscious computing, copyrighted by Helen Gavaghan.

Further general reading/information of interest in the context of this paper by NSMB are, I think:
Epigenetic News, a summation of the latest research published in the scientific litrature and reported on line by the company, Active Motif. See: http://www.activemotif.com/epigenetic-news.html
And a relevant conference:
2nd Oxford symposium on Epigenetic mechanisms in health and disease. Role of chromatin modifications in inflammation. Said Business School, University of Oxford, December 9-10, 2010. University of Oxford.
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Musings of a science writer: Carbon is a single minded molecule with a penchant for symmetrical relationships. When alone with others of its species it orders itself demurely, tidily, sometimes elegantly, often expensively. In combination it is a shape shifter. Is pongy or intrusive. It threads its way through water, plants, air and animals. Its names are longer than a Spanish grandees. It gives warmth, structure, danger and sustenence to life. So why did this molecule defeat me temporarily when I was 20? Because I had not thought about transition elements nor applied my thinking to wave functions in biology. HG.

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