Molecular Playground: Architectural Scale Interactive Molecules
I just found out that my thesis advisor is working on a cool project. There's a new science building going up at UMass Amherst (where I got my PhD) and Cra...
Month: May 2009
What can we learn from Asilomar?
There was a flurry of indignation recently on the DIYbio discussion group over an article in the Wall Street Journal over the safety of bio hackers (with added ...
Video: The Future of Science Publishing
In February, in a Barcelona restaurant, Mark Kramer caught up with me and asked me what I would be speaking about at the 3rd WLE Symposium (notes from the talk ...
links for 2009-05-21
Academy launches 'Synthetic Biology: scope, applications and implications' "A report launched by the Academy today highlights an emerging but cri...
links for 2009-05-20
Technology Review: Tiny Machine Commands a Swarm of Bacteria Wicked video of a microchip controlling bacteria via electromagnetism making the chip move through ...
Talk: The Future of Science Publishing
I think about the fusion of mobile and Web all the time. And I’ve been talking about and thinking about designing services and software for years. But I also wa...
Changing the journal impact factor through real-time transparent statistics
I've mentioned Mendeley before. They refer to themselves as a Last.fm for science papers, but I think it'll be much more. One thing they realize they ...
links for 2009-05-17
Nature Publishing Group's Omics Gateway Hmmm… "The Omics Gateway provides life scientists a convenient portal into publications relevant to larg...
links for 2009-05-16
Ginkgoo » Blog Archive » Changes coming to the Registry of Standard Biological Parts "For each group of parts, we’ve added text and pictures to better expl...
When the Central Dogma is not enough – microbial small RNAs
One thing that has always bugged me was a sort of pendatic repetition of what's called the Central Dogma of molecular biology – that DNA goes to RNA ...