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So Many Ways of Saying No to Mary

Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

Sexual reproduction is an ancient feature of life on earth, and the familiar X and Y chromosomes in humans and other model species have led to the impression that sex determination mechanisms are old and conserved. In fact, males and females are determined by diverse mechanisms that evolve rapidly in many taxa. Yet this diversity in primary sex-determining signals is coupled with conserved mole...

Many ways to loop DNA.

In the 1960s, I developed methods for directly visualizing DNA and DNA-protein complexes using an electron microscope. This made it possible to examine the shape of DNA and to visualize proteins as they fold and loop DNA. Early applications included the first visualization of true nucleosomes and linkers and the demonstration that repeating tracts of adenines can cause a curvature in DNA. The b...

So Many users - So Many Perspectives

Visualization — the transformation of data and information into multimedia including pictures, animation and 3D scenes — enables users to understand information more naturally. It reveals patterns and relations in the information which may otherwise remain hidden. As a consequence, it can provide a single user with enough valuable information to support decision making. In addition to this, vis...

"Analysis Paralysis"? - There exist so many ways to proceed, how could you get paralyzed?

I’ve been in several situations in which students would stop me in class and ask with stern faces: “How do you avoid analysis paralysis?” First time I heard that I sincerely replied: “How do you get to be paralyzed?” Indeed, there are many ways to avoid analysis paralysis—at least 5. The rest of this article assumes you’re in the shoes of an analyst, with the mission to model some new topics th...