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Sandra Porter I am a digital biologist, teacher, and entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).

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April 27, 2008

A vaccine against lung cancer?

Category: viruses

A potential link between lung cancer and human papilloma virus may make parents even more glad about vaccinating their children with Gardasil®. Not only are the children protected against viruses...

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April 26, 2008

Comparing mutant and wild type structures

Category: molecular structures

How to compare mutant and normal protein structures.

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April 24, 2008

The Personal Genome discussion

Category: Genomics

Bill Gates, Eric Lander, Maynard Olson, Leena Peltonen, and George Church fielded questions last night at a fascinating panel discussion on personal genomics at the University of Washington. We were...

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April 22, 2008

The wonders of webinars

Category: Bioinformatics

One of my favorite web 2.0 technologies is the webinar. When you work at a company and not a University, with constant seminars, it gets a bit harder to hop...

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April 17, 2008

Mapping polymorphisms in 16S ribosomal RNA

Category: sequence analysis

In the class that I'm teaching, we found that several PCR products, amplified from the 16S ribosomal RNA genes from bacterial isolates, contain a mixed base in one or more...

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April 16, 2008

Meet the ribosomes

Category: molecular structures

Ribosomes are molecular machines that build new proteins. This process of synthesizing a protein is also known as translation. Many antibiotics prevent translation by binding to ribosomal RNA. In the...

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April 11, 2008

Digital Biology Friday: A DNA sequencing data puzzle

Category: Bioinformatics

Can you solve this puzzle?

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April 9, 2008

How much do you know about Genetic Genealogy?

Category: Genetics & Molecular Biology

You can find out. Blaine Bettinger, the Genetic Genealogist has a fun little quiz....

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April 8, 2008

Open Access and using molecular structures in education

Category: molecular structures

I love using molecular structures as teaching tools. They're beautiful, they're easy to obtain, and working with them is fun. But working with molecular structures as an educators can present...

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April 4, 2008

I eat genomes for breakfast

Category: Ask Dr. Science

And so do you.

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