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Thanksgiving Leftovers: Under the Microscope
Category: Science Art
Would you recognize your leftovers when they're magnified? Would you know turkey if you saw it at 40X? Make a guess and click an image to see the answer....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 20, 2007
Interpreting DNA sequencing data: answers to the quiz
Category: Bioinformatics
Which read(s): 1. contain either a SNP (a single nucleotide polymorphism) or a position where different members of a multi-gene family have a different base? C 2. doesn't have any...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Step right up, get very own your DNA profile, only $999
Category: Genomics
The genie is out of the bottle. Personal genomes are not just for Venter and Watson anymore. Three competing companies, 23andme, Decode, and Navigenics are betting that you want to...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:00 AM • 4 Comments •
November 19, 2007
Scientists in Utah make transsexual worms
Category: Biology (Macroscopic )
Sexual attraction is all in your brain. At least if you're a nematode....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:20 PM • 2 Comments •
Interpreting DNA sequencing data: what can you get from quality scores?
Category: sequence analysis
Kind of like reading tea leaves, but more meaningful.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:10 AM • 10 Comments •
November 16, 2007
Digital Biology Friday: Animal Mitochondria and Evolution, part II
Category: Bioinformatics
You too, can compare chimp and human DNA.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:51 AM • 0 Comments •
November 15, 2007
Match the trace with the sample
Category: Bioinformatics
Can you do it? This is what bioinformatics technicians or data analysts do in diagnostic labs.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:09 AM • 6 Comments •
November 14, 2007
High school students uncover their past through their DNA
Category: population genetics
Students at Soldan International High School are participating in an amazing experiment and breaking ground that most science teachers fear to tread. Soldan students, along with hundreds of thousands of...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:04 PM • 9 Comments •
Irony in RNA: a puzzle
Category: molecular structures
RNA by any other name would smell as sweet. Or would it?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:13 AM • 3 Comments •
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