Hells Kitchen Jun 20, 2007
Mullen, victim of a rare and horrific form of rheumatoid arthritis known as palindromic syndrome, spent three weeks in the hospital. He came back to work three weeks ago with intermittent shooting pain, yet is striving to make up for the precious month he lost just as Suba was finding its groove. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Fascinating and fun new music from Berkeley Symphony Apr 22, 2007
"Cantatrix Sopranica" ("Soprano Singer") is an eight-movement celebration of the art of singing, done with a full helping of parody, flair and palindromic invention. Scored for two sopranos, countertenor and chamber ensemble, the 25-minute piece has a heyday with all sorts of vocal gimmickry. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Scientists Uncover Rules For Gene Amplification Jun 30, 2006
It s known that regions of chromosomes that are prone to amplification havepalindromic sequences of DNA, which are weak places where the chromosome can break. These palindromic sequences can be naturally found in human genome ... Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that a particular type of DNA break, a hairpin-capped double strand break, induced by these palindromic sequences, is a precursor to amplification. (Science Daily)
Beyond Biology: Making Factories, Computers With DNA Jun 21, 2006
Recent research has shown that the length of palindromic DNA molecules can be controlled by rotation ... Heslot and his team at the in Paris attached a magnetic bead to one end of a long double strand of palindromic DNA. By applying a rotating magnetic field, the researchers untwisted the double helix, causing it to buckle in the middle ... By reversing the turning direction, the palindromic DNA grew back in length, implying that it could be used to convert rotation into translation in a... (Fox News)
Baby Damien brings joy on 6/6/6 Jun 8, 2006
Then 10 days later there was 00:02:10 on 11/01/2000, which was the first fully palindromic time of the 21st Century. How weird is this story. (Metro Cafe)
Bostonians Changing the World Apr 30, 2006
Y" will take it. The biomedical researcher has done nothing less than redeem the black sheep of the genetic code. For decades, geneticists have dismissed the Y chromosome as an after-thought and even predicted that it would gradually become extinct (and men with it). On the contrary, Page and his lab have shown that it is extremely complex, a vast "genetic hall of mirrors" with palindromic repetitions of DNA sequences as long as 3 million letters. Hardly an apologist for Y, however, Page has... (Boston Globe)
Chromosome Rearrangements Not As Random As Believed Feb 24, 2006
The other 13 percent of the chromosomes had shorter palindromic adenine- and thymine-rich sequences. Surprising was the finding that newly arising t(11:22) translocations occurred with a frequency of approximately one in 100,000 sperm cells from healthy men with the longer palindromic sequences ... In contrast, men with a shorter palindromic sequence had a lower frequency of translocations. (Science Daily)
