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Sandra Porter I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Geospiza Education).

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    November 30, 2006

    A generous offer from the NSTA

    Category: Climate change

    The NSTA ups the ante.

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    EMBL Online Symposium: No travel costs! Attend for free!

    Category: Announcements

    Attend an exciting conference in Europe, virtually free!

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    November 29, 2006

    Antibiotics au naturale?

    Category: Microbiology

    What's the difference between a synthetic drug and an antibiotic? Sometimes there's no difference at all. Let's take a look at chloramphenicol and couple of pencillins....

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    November 28, 2006

    Jumping to Conclusions about the NSTA

    Category: Science culture

    One of my favorite books, "The Phantom Tollbooth," by Norton Juster, has a wonderful description of the penalties for making decisions without carefully evaluating the facts. Whenever the characters in the book arrive at a decision too quickly, they end up, literally, "jumping to Conclusions," an island far off the shore. The penalty for quick blog posts isn't so high....

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    A primer on antibiotic resistance, part I: what are antibiotics?

    Category: Microbiology

    Antibiotics are molecules of biological warfare. Produced by bacteria and some fungi, in response to extracellular signals, antibiotics represent a diverse group of compounds that inhibit bacterial growth at different points and different stages of the life cycle. We will get around to antibiotic resistance, but in these few words, I think I already wrote quite a bit. Admittedly, some...

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    November 27, 2006

    Addressing the biology knowledge gap

    Category: Science education

    How do non-biologists learn about biology?

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    November 22, 2006

    Bored on Thanksgiving?

    Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry

    Here's an experiment you can do at home.

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    39.5 million people have HIV

    Category: HIV/AIDS

    Random thoughts on AIDS and HIV

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    November 14, 2006

    Parasites and Purity

    Category: Microbiology

    New evidence links ancient latrines to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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    November 13, 2006

    A Sunday with the Tardigrades

    Category: Science education

    Cute little tardigrades are great research subjects.

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    November 8, 2006

    Molecular biology in the age of kits

    Category: Biotechnology

    Do more kits mean more science or more science that's bad?

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    November 7, 2006

    Visualize this!

    Category: Science Art

    The photogenic 2006 winners from the Nikon small world contest.

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    Neurons in the movies

    Category: web resources

    See what happens when retinal ganglion cells get together.

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    November 6, 2006

    Middle School Essay Contest 2006-2007

    Category: Science education

    Write about biomedical breakthroughs and your life and win $$

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    Let's watch that again in slow motion, shall we?

    Category: Science education

    We need lab movies of people doing things wrong.

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    November 4, 2006

    Mysterious lab protocols: Film at 11

    Category: Biotechnology

    You've probably heard about enterprising researchers attaching cameras to dolphins, dogs, and other animals, in order to learn how things look from the critter-point of view. Now, some enterprising lab rats have added a new twist to this technique....

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    November 2, 2006

    Dim Sum, anyone?

    Category: Humor

    Some experiments are doomed from the start

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    November 1, 2006

    Things that go wrong in the lab

    Category: Biotechnology

    Like sex education in a religious household, lab technique must sometimes be learned from your friends.

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