Category: Microbiology
Do different kinds of biomes (forest vs. creek) support different kinds of bacteria? Or do we find the same amounts of each genus wherever we look? Those are the questions...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:58 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Microbiology
This is third video in our series on analyzing the DNA sequences that came from bacteria on the JHU campus. In this video, we use a pivot table to count...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:47 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Bioinformatics
What do you do after you've used DNA sequencing to identify the bacteria, viruses, or other organisms in the environment? What's the next step? This four part video series covers...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:19 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Bioinformatics
For the past few years, I've been collaborating with a friend, Dr. Rebecca Pearlman, who teaches introductory biology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her students isolate bacteria from different environments...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:14 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science education
When will science lab courses start teaching more of what we do now, and less of what we did twenty years ago?
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:48 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: cubical world
In the cubical world, is the "Gesundheit" the right thing to say?
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:26 PM • 38 Comments •
Category: Bioinformatics
I love the way you show me secret things. All I do is type: Select * from name_of_a_table And you share everything with me. Without you, my vision is obscured,...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:42 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Miscellany
They could have used the data from my serial killer survey, but no, being scientists or science-related, the ScienceBlogs overseers want to find out for themselves. Plus the chance of...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:04 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Valentine's Day
Believe it or not, this is a DNA kiss....
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Category: bioethics
Confused about terms like "autonomy" and "beneficance" and their relationship to biomedical research? The Northwest Association for Biomedical Research (NWABR) is offering a short course at the University of Washington,...
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Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:10 AM • 0 Comments •