TWiV reports the administration putting a choke hold on billions of NIH health research funding, US Senators tell scientists they want to protect the NIH budget, then review a classic experiment showing the mechanism of DNA replication, and explain how jumbo phage DNA is transcribed in a membrane-bound compartment before transfer into proteinaceous “nucleus” compartment.
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- Chokehold on billions in NIH funding (WSJ)
- Senators want to protect NIH budget (Nature)
- Replication of DNA in E. coli (PNAS)
- Biography of Franklin Stahl (DNA Learning Center)
- Franklin Stahl, 95 (Caltech Magazine)
- FW Stahl dies (NY Times)
- Requiem for a machine (Small Things Considered)
- Membrane and protein bound organelles during phage infection (Cell Host Micr)
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- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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