Welcome to your weekly dose of cell and molecular biology. As always, I’ll choose select posts from blogs that I read – please do contact me with specific posts that you’d like “Cells Weekly” to link to, or topical blog discussions that I might be missing. And of course, please link to the “Cells Weekly” to share it with others.

• Science and Reason: Clues to the origins of life
• Biocurious: Molecule of the month: importins
• Epigenetics News: Epigenetic stem cell signature in cancer
• The Daily Transcript: Leading edge localization?, Cytoskeleton gestalt, A silent mutation affects pain perception?
• Discovering Biology in a Digital World: Five paths to antibiotic resistance: a quick summary
• Pure Pedantry: There are no “social” neurons!
• The Neurocritic: Spindle Neurons and Frontotemporal Dementia
• RRResearch: Got your pencils and rubber bands?
• Sandwalk: Prostaglandin synthesis
• Public Rambling: Specificity and evolvability in protein interaction networks
• Evolgen: Tissue Specific tRNA Expression
• Gene Expression: Genetic draft – selection is stochastic, sometimes….
• Omics! Omics!: The incredible shrinking bacterium

ScienceDaily Picks

• New Treatments Prevent Brain Injury Hours After Stroke In Rats
• Study Sheds New Light On Rare Immunodeficiency Disease
• Zebrafish Study Yield Novel Genes Critical In Organ Development
• Regulatory Pathway In Brain Development Possible Basis For Malformations
• Bisexual Fruit Flies Show New Role For Neurochemical
• Cancer-killing Invention Also Harvests Stem Cells