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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
April 29, 2010
Category: new media
all media is social media, and we (scientists, writers, bloggers, readers, commenters, tweeters, re-tweeters, gossipers, taxpayers, walk-for-the curers, teach, policy-makers, grant-funders) are all people and we are all responsible for the quality and content of science reporting and, importantly, of science
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April 27, 2010
Category: silk
The way silkworms make their cocoon is incredible--here is a time-lapse movie one of my colleagues made of the 24-hour long process.
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April 22, 2010
Category: sustainability
Many people in synthetic biology, including myself and much of my lab, are working on using biology to make things more efficiently, renewably, and sustainably. Being able to make plastic replacing biomaterials, chemicals, medicines, and fuels in living cells from...
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April 21, 2010
Category: fun
By Patrick of Hydrocalypse Industries!...
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April 20, 2010
Category: synthetic biology
Light interacts with and controls biological systems in diverse and fascinating ways. Our eyes are made up of thousands of cells that respond to light, sending signals to our brain as light in different colors and shapes moves across them....
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April 17, 2010
Category: bioethics
New in vitro fertilization technology is making it possible for someone to have two moms--one that provides the genome in the nucleus of the cell, and one that provides the rest of the egg cell, including the mitochondria. Since all...
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April 14, 2010
Category: music
As you can probably imagine, there are a lot of very interesting things that pop up when you have a google alert for "synthetic biology." Here is today's special find: a short dubstep song about synthetic biology by Dysoniq, featuring...
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April 12, 2010
Category: synthetic biology
I got a lot of interesting responses to my post about DIYbio and how modeling innovation in biotech on computer hacker culture may lead to a science that is less "democratized" than what is being proposed. My friend Adam pointed...
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April 10, 2010
Category: symbiosis
My two great thesis project loves are hydrogen and symbiosis, and as such, the recent news of a multicellular organism that lives in a completely oxygen free environment and gets its energy from hydrogenosomes instead of mitochondria is totally fascinating....
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April 7, 2010
Category: biosafety
An interesting paper in BioEssays last month looks at the potential future of xenobiology, totally orthologous biological systems made out of synthetic nucleotide and amino acid bases, new cells that use XNA instead of DNA. The author, Markus Schmidt, argues...
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