https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/ Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/#comment-421 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:54:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/#comment-421 It works great as a cartoony model for teaching the overall process. I don’t like that they combined Drosha and Dicer into one cheesy-looking endonuclease, though.Here’s my favorite animation of all time: http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/innerSuper.swf

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/#comment-420 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:39:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/#comment-420 Absolutely. That’s pretty much the coolest thing I’ve seen all month. You would probably need to break it into sections with annotations though.

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/#comment-419 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:24:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/10/cool-dna-video-rna-silencing/#comment-419 Its not the process as it occurs in mammalian cells as there is clearly an rna-dependent polymerase involved in this video (it isn’t present in mammalian cells).Its OK to explain how RNAi works in plants, I suppose.

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