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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
May 31, 2010
Category: gender
"The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics."
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 12:06 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2010
Category: genomics
I had the pleasure of chatting with John Hawks about the two big science news stories of the past few months, the synthetic genome and the Neandertal genome, for Science Saturday at bloggingheads.tv. John is a professor of anthropology at...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 6:32 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2010
Category: advice
I don't get nearly as many emails asking for advice as I'm sure the lovely and talented Dr. Isis does, and I'm not sure if my advice can compare in quality and sassiness to hers, but I want to address...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:52 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2010
Category: fun
There is big excitement in lab today--my very talented labmate Jake has won the Division of Medical Sciences graduate student science haiku contest!!! Here is his burrito winning entry: Green lasers on high Shining to illuminate Synechococcus! It's definitely haiku...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:46 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: synthetic biology
There is an interesting and very thoughtful piece by Craig Venter and Daniel Gibson in today's Wall Street Journal going through what their breakthrough is and what it isn't, where they see the project going in the future, and why...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:40 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2010
Category: plants
What is a true food allergy, and what can be done to fix them besides banning peanuts from schools and avoiding foods that make us itchy?
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 3:28 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2010
Category: synthetic biology
The reaction to the Venter Institute's synthetic genome transplantation has been decidedly mixed. Is this the beginning of something new and wonderful, the ability to really design organisms from scratch? Is it something more sinister, the beginning of a dark...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 11:10 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2010
Category: artificial life
This is a pretty old video we made about Craig Venter that I've shared before on Hydrocalypse, but I think now is a good time to share it again. When Craig isn't creating synthetic bacteria, he's sailing the world, searching...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 2:39 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: artificial life
The J. Craig Venter Institute has just announced the creation of the first bacterial cell controlled by a genome that is entirely chemically synthesized (PDF). The group has been working towards this goal for several years now, first working out...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 1:25 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 18, 2010
Category: music
I've written before about artificial life researchers from the 18th and 20th centuries working to create robots that attempt to recreate the human voice. I recently saw this terrifying video over at the PopSci blog of a recent robotic voice...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 3:23 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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