Jonathan Burkhart

va

“The key of protein synthesis machinery. Ribosome is the biological machinery for protein synthesis. Recently a high-resolution structure solved by single particle electron cryo-microscopy (Fischer et al., Nature 2015) has revealed the important role of ribosomal RNA modification. Certain antibiotics can interact with the RNA modification and therefore interrupt the function of the ribosome.” Via.

Jumy-M

Layer of nature / 層

by Harumi Hironaka

Sunken

A sharp crash of violent gusts lay siege to the tall, contempt-filled tree outside this great guarding glass, endlessly beating against the long-lived giant that towers above its small, watchful children below. Cold torrents of liquid grief, unendingly toiling the ravaged soil, make for the crudest fertilizers. It hangs low, its upper portion, the base sunken into the watery loam that permeates the grassy quagmire surrounding some thirsty roots, swelling with gratitude for the great generosity of these gray-blotched granters of the means to live in a world where poisoned water is ignored and consumed.

It makes the grass sing in bountiful notes of splendor, rejoicing that the gray clouds, donating their color to somewhere else, opened within the jeweled sky as a gleaming white herald that gave a glittering pile of sunlight, dripping, to the opened, breathing leaves of the tree that bows.

Alex Mazurov & Anastasia Glebova: Faroe Islands

La danse des géants (by Luc Neuville)

Ötzi Has No Living Female Relatives

Ötzi the Iceman has no living female relatives, as his maternal genetic branch is now extinct, says a new research into the genetic history of the 5,300-year-old mummy.

According to the study, the Iceman’s maternal line appears to have originated and died out in the eastern Italian Alps. On the other hand, his paternal lineage is still observed in Europe, and new male relatives, alive and well, may be possibly added to the list of the mummy’s descendants.

The announcement comes a week after researchers published the results of a genetic analysis which established the Copper Age man was infected with Helicobacter pylori, the pathogen that gives people gastritis and stomach ulcers. Read more.