1. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196608 by adrrrian on June 20, 2008 at 8:14 am

After hearing this, I feel very sad for Muslim women. They are humans and should be treated in that way.

Urgh, religions...

2. New Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-domain Genes Developed

Comment #182772 by adrrrian on May 21, 2008 at 12:45 am

In simple terms:

Multi-domain proteins are proteins made up of multiple independent units, which maybe on the same amino acid sequence; these units are often referred to as "domains".

E.g. Some domains are responsible for binding DNA, some other for binding other proteins.

Functional domains can be replaced artificially or by natural processes, through replacing the corresponding parts of the gene encoding the protein. After that the function of the whole protein will change accordingly.

Original work of Neighborhood Correlation:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000063;jsessionid=D06FE6D07BDA62746438C5B852D8DA02