Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Gene circuits

Save Data to Gene

Georg Fritz at the University of Cologne and his colleagues say that a network of genes can act in a circuit as a "conditional memory" that stores or ignores information when told to do so, somewhat similar to a 'data latch' in an electronic circuit. S. Pelech comments that Dr. Fritz's work is entirely theoretical, no evidence is available for whether conditional memory circuits as proposed actually exist in real genetic networks, and that proteins would have to be equally important components in memory circuits. Read More...