Points of clarity

As you can see, we have had a busy couple of months with plenty of new articles published on a wide range of topics. I just wanted to take a few minutes to explain a couple of points that have been causing a little confusion on our site. What does ‘indexed’ mean? The first relates…

Kuan-Teh Jeang

It is with great sadness that we note the death of Faculty Member Kuan-Teh Jeang, who passed away on the 27th of January. Dr Jeang was a prominent researcher at the NIH for 27 years, and renowned for his work in retroviruses. He was also Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology and an editorial board member of numerous…

Meddling with Mendel?

Back in 2005, Dr Susan Lolle and her colleagues from Purdue University published a paper on genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana in Nature ((Lolle, Victor, Young et al: Genome-wide non-Mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature (2005) 434:505-9)) that caused quite a stir amongst plant biologists, geneticists and pretty much everyone else in the…