tags: biochemistry

2015

November

2015 Nov 19
Reverse Engineering Life

This XKCD post (mentioned [previously]) really got me thinking too much about the analogy between genetic code and computer code.

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2016

May

2016 May 26
Bionerd Thoughts

I switched radio stations and it was in the middle of playing the song that ミA彡 and I danced to for our first dance at our wedding reception.

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June

2016 Jun 10
Polyphenol oxidase

I only just learned about Arctic® apples, marketed as non-browning apples. They achieve this by adding extra copies of the polyphenol oxidase gene, thereby inducing gene silencing.

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