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Teen-age children as experimental subjects
Category: Biology (Macroscopic )
You can learn funny things when you do science at home
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 14 Comments •
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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.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:51 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
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'...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:37 PM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:37 AM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:28 PM • 0 Comments •
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:18 AM • 1 Comments •
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,...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:16 PM • 1 Comments •
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:03 PM • 2 Comments •
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...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:38 PM • 2 Comments •
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