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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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Biology (Macroscopic ):

Teen-age children as experimental subjects

Category: Biology (Macroscopic )

You can learn funny things when you do science at home

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Digital Biology and the Deep Blue Sea

Category: Bioinformatics

Yours truly does an interview for The Reef Tank on using digital biology to interrogate the ocean.

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A Thanksgiving mash-up

Category: Bioinformatics

I suppose I should have expected this. I thought it might be fun to see what the databases had to say about turkeys. Technorati Tags: Thanksgiving,, turkey,, mash-up...

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What could be worse than snakes on a plane?

Category: Biology (Macroscopic )

A loose spider on a space station. Technorati Tags: humor, 'snakes, on, a, plane', spider, spiders, 'space, station'...

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Medicine at the Cutting Edge

Category: Biology (Macroscopic )

Yes, that's right, another Medicine 2.0 blog carnival has been posted for your enjoyment. And the host, Ivor Kovic, has done an amazingly creative and interesting thing with images from...

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OMG! Baby animal pictures!

Category: Biology (Macroscopic )

I used to get e-mails from relatives that were filled with cute pictures of kittens and puppies. It's luck they didn't know about this site: http://www.zooborns.com/ These are the some...

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Visit the Galápagos for free! (as an avatar)

Category: Science education

The Galápagos islands rank high on my list of places that I really, really, really want to visit. But for many reasons, it's always looked like a trip to the...

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Are your sperm short-lived and tiny?

Category: Biology (Macroscopic )

Then you need to head over to The Oyster's Garter and read Miriam Goldstein's incredibly funny post about the problems of male sea squirts. Apparently, if you're a sea squirt,...

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Do mosquitoes get the mumps?, part I

Category: Original research

Part I. The back story from the genome record Together, these five posts describe the discovery of a novel paramyxovirus in the Aedes aegyptii genome and a new method for...

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Vaccines, part II: what are vaccines made of?

Category: Immunology

Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to respond to a specific thing. Most of the vaccines we use are designed to prime the immune system so that it's ready...

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