Eric Spitznagel has recently asked me to provide my opinion on the mysterious Baby Yoda for an article in Popular Mechanics. The really cool piece was published today, but obviously Eric had to remove some bits for brevity, since he was trying to get the opinion of many different scientists. You should really read the […]
I get the weirdest emails sometimes…. Dear professor Iddo Friedberg, First of all, I would like to introduce myself, my name is _____, 30 years old I occupy a staff position of instructor at the department of pharmaceutical microbiology, faculty of pharmacy, ____ University, _____. I was graduated in 2003 with an overall grade “excellence with honors” & […]
We will never look at life at quite the same way again. Until now, information flow in biology looked like this: DNA gets transcribed to RNA, wheich in turn is translated to protein. While reverse transcription does take place with retroviruses using reverse transcriptase, the central dogma of molecular biology held that […]
