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Category: Climate change
The NSTA ups the ante.
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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
EMBL Online Symposium: No travel costs! Attend for free!
Category: Announcements
Attend an exciting conference in Europe, virtually free!
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:47 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:58 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:21 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2006
Addressing the biology knowledge gap
Category: Science education
How do non-biologists learn about biology?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 22, 2006
Bored on Thanksgiving?
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Here's an experiment you can do at home.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
39.5 million people have HIV
Category: HIV/AIDS
Random thoughts on AIDS and HIV
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:54 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 14, 2006
Parasites and Purity
Category: Microbiology
New evidence links ancient latrines to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:29 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 8, 2006
Molecular biology in the age of kits
Category: Biotechnology
Do more kits mean more science or more science that's bad?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:53 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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