by Kerin Higa | Apr 21, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
If you’ve ever taken a biology course, you should be familiar with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase—or at least its abbreviation: GAPDH. GAPDH is a simple, highly conserved enzyme required for glycolysis, the process of turning glucose into energy....
by Melissa Lau | Apr 14, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Like so many behind-the-scenes gaffers and stagehands, cell adhesion proteins ensure structural integrity and thus proper functioning of all our cells. Cell adhesion may not be one of the more showy or glamorous cellular processes, but it is no less vital to organism...
by Kerin Higa | Apr 7, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Gene nomenclature is complicated and sometimes, as you’ll see, hilarious. Take polycomb group RING finger protein 2 (PCGF2), for example. “Polycomb group” (PcG) comes from Drosophila biology. To the fly-ignorant, like myself, the term might sound like part of a...
by Melissa Lau | Apr 2, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Editor’s note: This post is the first in our “Gene of the Week” series. Learn more about it here. Armed with leeches, scalpels, and scarificators, medical practitioners (and their patients) once trusted bloodletting as a valid, sensible remedy for...
by Justin Kiggins | Apr 2, 2014 | BioGPS, GeneOfTheWeek
Every day, scientists are using BioGPS to get additional information about the genes they are interested in: expression patterns, biological pathways, and more. We have lots of data on which genes you have been using BioGPS to learn more about, and in the coming...
