Seed Media Group

Discovering Biology in a Digital World

My thoughts on biology, teaching, life, and exploring the living world via the digital one. Only my opinions are represented by these postings, they do not represent the viewpoints of any funding agency or Geospiza, Inc.

Profile

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 (Geospiza Education).

Search this blog

Learn about DNA with molecular models

Exploring DNA Structure


Subscribe to Geospiza Education News


e-mail digitalbio at gmail.com


DigitalBio Favorites

Molecular Momentos


Recent Posts

Recent Comments

Archives

Categories

Blogroll

Science Education Groups

Science Blogs School Fundraiser



Keep up to date

Awards

Red Orbit

Digital Bio at Blogged


Add Digital Bio to your Technorati Favorites!

Interesting places

  • xkcd
  • The Tangled Bank
    MicrobeWorld Radio

    population genetics:

    DNA and the Dead Sea Scrolls

    We went on an excursion last weekend to see the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Pacific Science Center. None of us could resist going downtown to look at written texts over 2000 years old. Uncovered in 1946, by a Bedouin...

    White people are mutants

    Razib inspired me to share some of the story behind why white people are considered derivatives. Reposted from the Classic Digital Bio. No red herrings, here! Lamason et. al. found a single gene that controls human skin color while studying...

    Using HIV to prove some points about evolution, part IV

    Did HIV become resistant to Atazanavir because of a genetic change? Was that genetic change inherited? Did HIV evolve? Can we explain why genetic changes at specific sites might help HIV escape the effects of the drug? Let's find out....

    Using HIV to prove some points about evolution, part III

    In which we see the results and come to our own conclusions. If you want to let other people tell you what's right and what's wrong, they will surely do so. Turn on the TV and hordes of happy actors...

    Using HIV to prove some points about evolution, part II

    Let the experiment begin....

    Using HIV to prove some points about evolution, part I.

    When can a really bad virus be used to do something good? When we can use it to learn. The human immunodeficiency virus, cause of AIDS, scourge of countries, and recent focus of ScienceBlogs; like humans, evolves. As one of...

    Waxing lyrical about that stuff in our ears

    It's hard sometimes when you're out of synch with the rest of the world. While my fellow ScienceBloggers have been obsessing about breasts, I've been really amused by the genetics of ear wax. Eh, what's that you say? Yes, it's...

    Digital Biology Friday: That was no ape, that was my brother!

    We've had a good time in the past few last weeks, identifying unknown sequences and learning our way around a GenBank nucleotide record. To some people, it seems that this is all there is to doing digital biology. They would,...

    Hello Kitty! or Don't Eat Me, I Study Genetics!

    Genetics textbooks abound with stories of European royalty and the hazards of having children after you've married one of your cousins. It struck me as an interesting parallel that the lion is such a popular symbol in so many royal...

    Search All Blogs

    Blogs in the Network

    Top Five: Readers' Picks

    Top Science Stories

    powered by SEED - seedmagazine.com