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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
February 28, 2010
Category: art
My labmates and I love Lady Gaga. Like, love love love. Enough to make a parody fan video of Bad Romance. It is my pleasure to present to you "Lab Romance", a production of Hydrocalypse Industries. Enjoy! Lyrics after the...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 1:33 PM • 22 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
February 26, 2010
Category: biosafety
Some of the responses to my post about synthetically expanding the genetic code have highlighted some of the weaknesses in my argument about the safety of using a different genetic code. Namely, that "life finds a way", that we can't...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 3:40 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 19, 2010
Category: video
Here's my first little editing project for my documentary film class. A day in the lab, but much much faster paced....
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 1:13 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 18, 2010
Category: synthetic biology
Almost every living thing shares an identical genetic code, with three nucleic acids in an RNA sequence coding for a single amino acid in the translated protein sequence. While there are 64 three-letter RNA sequences, there are only 20 amino...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 7:10 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 15, 2010
Category: art
The future potential of synthetic biology is usually discussed in terms of applications in fields like medicine, food science, and the environment. Genetically engineered life forms are being designed to make medicines cheaply, to target tumor cells, to make more...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 12, 2010
Category: synthetic biology
My labmate Bruno's newest paper, "A synthetic circuit for selectively arresting daughter cells to create aging populations" came out today in the journal Nucleic Acids Research (and it's open access!). Using a cleverly designed genetic circuit that activates cell growth...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:15 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 11, 2010
Category: bioethics
BioShock2 came out a couple days ago, the sequel to the wildly successful video game BioShock. BioShock is a first-person-shooter video game set in Rapture, an underwater city overrun by violently insane genetically engineered mutants called "Splicers", creepy zombie-like girls,...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 1:35 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 10, 2010
Category: books
A review of Rob Carlson's new book.
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:22 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 8, 2010
Category: friends
Teachers' Domain, a digital media resource for teachers, profiled Karmella Haynes, one of my amazing labmates! There's a fun video of Karmella talking about her work on synthetic biology devices to track cancer cells and about careers in science streaming...
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February 5, 2010
Category: synthetic biology
What do you think the future will bring?
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:02 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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