Scientists given the jitters

Stem cell jitters

But when you see something that’s involving so many people in so many states, I think it’s probably helpful to think of it as an expanding, emerging infectious disease epidemic.’ In what sense this was ‘helpful,’ she didn’t say. Not all broadcasts were so informative. CNN held true to its commitment to fill airtime regardless of whether it had factual information to contribute. The host of CNN ...

Café Jitters A Collection of Poems

Hormone Jitters Manufacturing Fearful Memories

By the scientists, for the scientists

My association with the JCB began very early in my scientific career. In fact, it predated my understanding that there would even be a scientific career. In the mid-1970s while still an undergraduate, the JCB published my very first paper, a contribution noted perhaps less so for its reporting the characterization of the first known protein in plant cell walls than for a footnote that called at...

Why do cyclic nucleotide-gated channels have the jitters?

in recent textbooks. But, as mentioned above, DNAs in the entrance-exit region of the nucleosome do not continue the right-angle trajectories defined in the core particle, and bend away from each other before they could cross. This leaves one negative crossing and therefore no paradox in the LH-free nucleosome. The paradox would similarly no longer exist for the LH-containing nucleosome if, as ...