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 An end to the blogging hiatus at last! I hope to entertain you with the fascinating story on how female wasps got rid of their men and sex in return for bacterial endosymbionts.. Despite the obvious benefits of pleasure and procreation, sex has other advantages. The genetic material of both parents gets mixed in [...]  Blogging will be slow the next few weeks, as I’m currently in the process of writing up my Master’s thesis, preparing the final presentation and generally finishing up the (last) internship of my MSc programme. After everything is over, I can hopefully call myself a Master of Science. It’s a strange feeling that [...]  News sites left and right are picking up a story that “Scientists solved the chicken or egg problem”. Google News aggregated 164 news articles at the time of writing, with more being added every minute. The typical introduction runs like this: It is the age-old question that has stumped the finest minds for thousands of years. [...] 
You might not think much of sponges. Maybe you feel that they’re only good for rubbing your back and cleaning your kitchen sink. While you’re absolutely right that sponges have to be admired for their absorbing qualities, they have much more to offer this world. Like on the front of early animal evolution: [...] I’m happy to tell you that molecular and cellular biology bloggers soon will have their own Blog Carnival! The MolBio Carnival came into existence thanks to the joint efforts of Alejandro Montenegro, Lab Rat, Psi Wavefunction, Alexander Knoll and myself. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of a blog carnival: a carnival [...] 
In my high school text books, bacteria were primarily defined in terms of what they were not. “Bacteria don’t have a nucleus”, “bacteria don’t have mitochondria”, “bacteria are not capable of complex membrane trafficking” and so on. But such boundaries seem to blur as more and more “eukaryote specific” properties pop up in [...] |
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