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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 (Digital World Biology).

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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...

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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...

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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 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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