Question: Is anything that’s alive kind of complicated? Answer: Now that you mention it, yes. Here’s a little (but this little is a lot) of what people have managed to figure out about what’s happening moment to moment in a wee, tiny little bacterium that has a fancy name (“Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655“). You can […]
If you have wondered whether there is a molecular basis for the blond hair evident on many northern Europeans, some degree of enlightenment is available. See the study “A molecular basis for classic blond hair color in Europeans“, published in 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics. The F1000 Prime blog discusses that study in brief.
