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ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 10

Behnam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:25:52 +0000

In last episode we talked about how transcription strars or initiation of transcription. Nexst step is elongation which we will talk about it in this episode.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 9

Behnam — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:03:27 +0000

Last episode, we explained that there are three different steps in transcription and mentioned that we will explain the one by one in this episode. So, let's start with Initiation.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 8

Behnam — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:50:03 +0000

Now that we know how genetic information carries on along different generations, that's the time to explain how this information becomes converted from the form of a sequence of nucleotides in a DNA molecule to the form of a sequence of amino acids in a protein molecule.

One Minute Interviews- Juan Francisco Leyva Illades

Behnam — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:45:11 +0000

"The main goal of my research is to elucidate the biological function of one particular gene, AtST10, which is highly expressed in the fruit of Arabidopsis in comparison to the rest of the other organs."
- Juan Francisco Leyva Illades.

If you want to know more about what Juan is doing for his Master's thesis project, listen to today's podcast.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 7

Behnam — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:50:22 +0000

But the problem happens when we look at the other strand which is called lagging strand. Since the direction of the replication fork movement for this strand is 5 prime to 3 prime, so the direction of producing the complementary strand for this lagging strand will be 3 prime to 5 prime which we explained that is impossible to happen.

If you want to know how Replication machinary has solved this problem, listen to today's podcast.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 6

Behnam — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:06:14 +0000

In this episode we talk about how DNA replication starts and what is the main problem of the polymerase enzyme to produce the new strands of DNA during replication.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 5

Behnam — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:50:25 +0000

In this podcast which is another episode of our "As Simple As Possible" (A.K.A. ASAP), we talk more about DNA replication and those molecules involved in this event.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 4

Behnam — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:09:22 +0000

In Replication, the amount of information will stay intact but the number of molecules carrying this information duplicates. In other words, there is no increase of decrease of the genetic information of a cell when replication happens but the genetic material duplicates.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 3

Behnam — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:09:13 +0000

Information in a cell undergoes three biological events called:
- Replication
- Transcription and
- Translation

To know more about these events, stay tuned with our ASAP series.

Microsoft Surface Technology

Behnam — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:10:48 +0000

Basically we can compare Surface Technology to a big horizontal "iPod Touch" or "iPhone" which has a big enough screen that makes several users enable to touch and interact with the computer simultaneously.

If you want to know more about this technology, listen to today's podcast.

One Minute Interviews- Madhav Soowamber

Behnam — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:58:24 +0000

"I'm developing a Cadmium biosensor using the green alga Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii". If you want to know more about what Madhav Soowamber is doing for his Master's thesis project, listen to today's podcast.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 2

Behnam — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:37:46 +0000

In our last ASAP episode, we explained that, the genetic information of a cell is stored as the sequence of four nucleutides, G, C, A, and T in DNA molecule. But how this information can be converted into the shape of different events in the cell? Listen to today's podcast to know more about how this conversion becomes possible.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Behnam — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:25:16 +0000

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge university, Thomas A. Steitz, from Yale University, and Ada E. Yonath from Weizmann Institute of Science won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2009 for their researches on the structure and function of Ribosomes. Ribosome is a machine which is responsible of converting the genetic code to the shape of a protein. If you want to know more about ribosome, listen to today's podcast.

ASAP Series: Genetics and Molecular Biology 1

Behnam — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:03:22 +0000

In these series of podcasts which are called "as simple as possible", we are trying to explain some scientific/technological concepts in a very simple way! As the first topic we will start with "Genetic and Molecualr Biology".

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

Behnam — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:20:31 +0000

Elizabeth H. Blackburn from University of California, San Francisco, Carol W. Greiderfrom Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, and Jack W. Szostak from Harvard Medical School, are the three scientists who will share the Nobel medicine Prize in 2009. If you want to know what they have achieved that made them deserve the prize, listen to today's podcast.

Popcorn Hoax!

Behnam — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:38:58 +0000

For sure this video will scare you at first, and you will think about, if the cell phones do this to the corn seeds, so what will be the effect on my brain cells when i hold my cell phone next to my ear?

If you want to know about the fact behind these videos, listen to today's podcast!

A tiny change in our theme!

Behnam — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:08:48 +0000

Since we have found that the time limitation is affecting the quality of our episodes, from now on, we will remove this limitation and so, our episodes might go over one minute, but we will still try our best to keep the main part of each episode as short as one minute but adding the introduction and ending parts might make them a little bit longer than a minute.

One Minute Interviews – Chris K. Elvidge

Behnam — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:50:10 +0000

Chris K. Elvidge, PhD student in Concordia university is talking about his research thesis. In his profile on Biology Graduate Student Assosiation (BGSA) Chris says: "I am focussing on the chemically-mediated antipredator behaviours of prey fish in anthropogenically modified (i.e. acidified) freshwater systems." To know more about what Chris is doing for his thesis research, listen to today's "One Minute Interview" with Chris.

DNA BARCODE LINKER 4

Behnam — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:41:30 +0000

After submitting your query, this search engine will give you back all the information you need about the species, including pictures, wikipedia page of the species, bibliographic links, etc. So it seems everything is ready. We only need a Small, handheld sequencer machine which can be found in the market.

DNA BARCODE LINKER 3

Behnam — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:00:10 +0000

DNA barcode sequence, is a part of mitochondrial DNA and as a result, has a relatively high mutation rate which makes it quite unique for Each species. But, on the other hand, since mitochondrial DNA is maternally inherited, it will not go through recombination and other Events which usually mix up the sequence of the genome during the production of gamettes.

DNA BARCODE LINKER 2

Behnam — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:18:01 +0000

Among all different molecules, "DNA BARCODE SEQUENCES" are unique among different individuals of the same species while they are different between different species. But what are the DNA barcode sequences?

DNA BARCODE LINKER 1

Behnam — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:41:24 +0000

Imagine you are in the wild and you find a piece of a rotten leaf and you want to know what kind of tree that leaf has fallen from! So you bring out your DNA BARCODER GADGET from your bag, put a tiny bit of the leaf specimen in the hole, provided in your gadget and then, in a few seconds, your gadget will tell you what kind of tree this rotten piece of leaf belongs to.

To know more about this field of Molecular Biology Science, listen to today's podcast and stayed tuned for more to come.

How to protect your idea 4

Behnam — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:18:28 +0000

For inventions, the best way is to apply for a patent! Books, can be registered to copyright law after they are being written and published (though you can register the manuscript even before being published). A play or any other idea which can be performed as a piece of fine arts, have to be tangible in their own way and then registered for copyright law

How to protect your idea 3

Behnam — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:57:45 +0000

After registeration, then you can be sure that in case if you coud find any other website with your content or idea, or even quoting a part of your website without your premission, you can take an action against it. There are several tools such as Copyspace.com (which is the most reliable and useful one) to check if there is any other website on cyberspace that has copied or quoted all or a part of your website.

How to protect your idea 2

Behnam — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:44:45 +0000

Let's say you have an idea about a specific website which has a specific feature and you think people will buy your idea and your website will find its own market place and you can make a fortune out of it!..

How to protect your idea 1

Behnam — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:39:53 +0000

Are you a businessman? A writer? A program developer? Whatever you are, do you want to protect your idea of being copied by others? Well, there are some points you have to know about how to protect your idea. Listen to our podcast for next 4 days to know about how you can protect your ideas.

Natural Selection 2

Behnam — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:00:51 +0000

Natural selection is blind about if the newly changed trait which can give a reproductive advantage is whether heritable or only the result of environmental factors or the life experience which are Non heritable traits...

Natural Selection 1

Behnam — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:49:30 +0000

Natural selection is a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. In other words, it is the process, where heritable traits, that make it more likely for an organism to survive long enough to reproduce, become more common, over successive generations of a population.

If you want to know more about Natural Selection listen to today's and tomorrow's podcasts.

One Minute Interviews – Sol Ackerman

Behnam — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:07:52 +0000

I'm creating individual-based simulations based on models of ecological population growth...

If you want to know more about what Sol Ackerman does for his PhD thesis, listen to today's podcast.

SnapTell

Behnam — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:27:45 +0000

With this application, you can take a snapshot of any Book, CD, DVD or even video game cover and then within seconds you can get tons of information about the product such as rating, reviews, and also useful links to Major bookstores, music stores or even some websites such as Youtube, Wikipedia, IMDB, Amazon, and Barnes and Nobels.

It also.. If you want to know more about this application, listen to today's podcast.

One Minute Interviews – Behnam

Behnam — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:04:17 +0000

In my thesis project I'm working on "The correlation between Gene length and Genome nucleotide content".

If you want to know more about what Behnam is doing for his thesis project, listen to today's podcast.

One Minute Interviews – Introduction

Behnam — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:16:06 +0000

Starting from tomorrow, we are going to have a new theme in our "ONE MINUNTE TALK SERIES" in lifeilike magazine podcast. In this new theme, we will interview some graduate students in different science and technology departments and will ask them to talk about what they do as their thesis projects in only 60 seconds.

For each interview, we will introduce each student and the laboratory which they work and do their projects in, in our podcast page at www.lifeilike.com/podcast3. It's needed to be mentioned that we will have these interviews once in while among our regular programs. Tomorrow we will have our first interview with Behnam, Bioinformatics PhD student at Concordia University.

How to enable “Hibernation” in Windows Vista!

Behnam — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:14:41 +0000

If you're a Windows Vista user, you might have faced a strange problem, specially if you have migrated from older versions of windows. The problem is that most of the times, the "Hibernation" option is not enabled and can not be seen in the "power options part" of your start menu. To fix this problem, first you have to make sure that your hardware has the hibernation feature. To know more about what you have to do, listen to today's podcast.

Wireless Power Transmission 2

Behnam — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:22:40 +0000

There are three main ways of transmitting power without the need of wires. The most common way is using induction, followed by electrodynamic induction which is called "inductive coupling". Most electric toothbrushes recharge through inductive coupling. Other technologies for wireless power include those based upon microwaves and lasers. If you want to know more about these technologies, listen to today's podcast.

Wireless Power Transmission 1

Behnam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:11:34 +0000

The history of "Wireless energy transfer or wireless power transmission" goes back to 1820 when André-Marie Ampère describes Ampere’s law, showing that electric current produces a magnetic field. Today and tomorrow we will talk about the history of this technology and also will try to explain how it works.

Swine Flu 2

Behnam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:52:20 +0000

In this episode, we talk more about how Swine Flu Virus (SIV) transmits between animals and humans and also how to prevent this infection.

Swine Flu 1

Behnam — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:45:10 +0000

How much do you know about swine flu? Swine - influenza which is also known as Swine flu, Pig flu or Hog flu, is a viral infection by any kind of Swine Influenza Virus (SIV) which includes any strain of influenza virus that is endemic in pigs. If you want to know more about this infectious disease and the way of its transmission and how to prevent it, follow our podcast! Tomorrow we will also talk about this topic.

Non verbal communication 2

Behnam — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:30:47 +0000

In this podcast we are bringing some examples of how your body language and also intonation might affect the meaning of what you say!

Non verbal communication!

Behnam — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:44:17 +0000

Albert Mehrabian, UCLA Professor Emeritus of Psychology has investigated that in a face-to-face communication the most important element is non-verbal communication and vocal communications. In his paper, he shows the greater effect of body-language, in a way that, if words and body language disagree, one tends to believe the body language.

Plasma or LCD?

Behnam — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:52:43 +0000

If you want to buy a brand new TV and are still wondering to go for a Plasma TV screen or LCD, listen to today's podcast.

Cloud Computing 3

Behnam — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:22:45 +0000

Michael Miller the author of "Cloud computing Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online", makes a list of some advantages and disadvantages of this way of computing. To know more about this positive and negative points, listen to this episode.

Cloud Computing 2

Behnam — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:59:56 +0000

In cloud computing, the idea is almost the same! you only need an interface which can transport your requests to a set of interconnected main computers (which is known as cloud of servers) and all the computation will happen there. Listen to our podcast to hear to rest of the story of cloud computing.

Cloud Computing 1

Behnam — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:55:27 +0000

Most probably everybody has experienced using terminal machines (either computer terminals or even an ATM machine), so I believe understanding cloud computing won't be that hard! You just need to expand your knowledge and imagination about how terminal machines work to get to the point of how cloud computing is being defined! Follow our podcast to know more about this concept.

Why cannot Chimpanzees speak but we can?

Behnam — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:36:12 +0000

Chimpanzee have almost the same number of genes as we do and surprisingly 98% of their genes are common with us. But why can't they speak as we do?

How big is our GENOME?

Behnam — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:36:36 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Project Information Web site illustrates the size of the human genome by estimating that it would take "about 9 and a half years to read out loud (of course without stopping). If you want to know more about the size of our genome, listen to today's podcast.

The U.S. Department of Energy Human Genome Project Information Web site illustrates the size of

the human genome by estimating that it would take "about 9 and a half years to read out loud (of course without stopping).

Right side or Left side of the Road? 2

Behnam — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:13:53 +0000

Today we are talking about what made people to transit from right side driving to left side driving!

Right side or Left side of the Road?

Behnam — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:24:49 +0000

In the past, almost everybody used to travel on the left. The reason goes back to the structure of societies back then which were mostly feudalistic and Feudal societies are characterized by military landholders and working peasants! ... Wanna know more? Listen to today's and tomorrow's podcasts.

Hybrid Vehicles 2

Behnam — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:10:59 +0000

Let's imagine you are willing to help saving nature! You decide to reduce your carbon emission! Thus you are going to buy a hybrid car! But wait a second! Before browsing different car companies' websites, do you have any idea what kind of car you are looking for? Based on what, you are going to compare different brands and models? There are some ways to differentiate hybrid cars! Maybe you want to listen to this "One Minute Talk" to know more about this issue!

Hybrid Vehicles 1

Behnam — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:10:05 +0000

Did you know that Ferdinand Porche made the first "Hybrid Electric Vehicle" in 1899? If you want to know more about this generation of vehicles, stay tuned for next couple of days!

How to avoid Internet Archive

Behnam — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:05:30 +0000

First you have to know, you can do this only if you have access to your website's home directory on the web server which is hosting your website, SO if you are using a free blog hosting service such as WordPress or blogger you have to check their terms of service to see if they are protected against archiver or not.

For submitting your website in Alexa server you can click here.

Internet Archive

Behnam — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:03:18 +0000

Did you know whatever content you make will be saved somewhere and can be accessible in future even if you delete it? To know more about this archive, listen to today's podcast.

Like a start!

Behnam — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:56:50 +0000

We believe that life can be more exciting with a little bit of science and technology! In this podcast channel, we will be with you with a series of "One Minute Talks" everyday! We will talk about how we can avoid "WAYBACK Machine" crawling our web, how to chose the best hybrid car, advantages ans disadvantages of the new gadgets in the market, etc..

Stay tuned with Life i Like Magazine Podcast.