Central Park East - 8:00am
Good morning, good morning! I almost forgot to post today b/c I am all wrapped up in working on this biochemistry test. I have to write a proposal based on a paper about an innate immune sensor of viral RNA called RIG-I (Retinoic acid inducible gene-I). When RIG-I senses that your cells are infected with a virus, it signals to your nucleus to stop allowing protein translation, which is the way that all your proteins get made. Now why would your cell want to halt protein translation when you're infected with a virus?
........are you thinking?
........b/c the cell will sacrifice itself for the organism by not allowing the virus to hijak YOUR cell's protein translation machinery to make proteins for itself that it will then use to go and infect more of your cells.
The name doesn't really have anything to do with what it actually does but some side-effect of how it was found. Typical science. Let's think rationally but give nothing a rational name. AND let's NEVER change names....EVER. In any event, I'm eating an egg sandwich - I like to make myself good breakfasts when I'm working a lot.
There's your science lesson for the morning. Have a wonderful day!
Here's your holiday special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
Lovin' me some Mariah Carey!!
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