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Notes, thoughts, and news on synthetic biology by Christina Agapakis.
August 30, 2010
Category: plants
Sometimes among all of the tedious protocols and mundane inconclusive data, I forget that I'm doing something amazing and incredibly powerful. Almost all my experiments require altering a living organism to do my bidding--to hold onto and replicate a piece...
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August 25, 2010
Category: bioenergy
There's a terrific new article in New Scientist about some of the ways scientists are working on turning pee into energy. There's a lot of pee in the world all going to waste, often at huge cost to the environment...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:42 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2010
Category: DNA
A recent survey of 3,000 people worldwide found what many have known all along--that Legos are the best toy ever made. For synthetic biologists, this doesn't come as much of a surprise--Legos are at the heart of the concepts underlying...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 10:21 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 10, 2010
Category: iGEM
It turns out that my wonderful iGEM students, besides being brilliant scientists, are also excellent, hilarious actors. Please enjoy their Jersey Shore inspired video about molecular cloning:...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 4:20 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 4, 2010
Category: art
My Synthetic Aesthetics partner, Sissel Tolaas, is featured in the terrific current issue of the German interview magazine mono.kultur. Her work focuses on smell, exploring the unique smellscapes of different cities, creating provocative scents to show in art galleries,...
Posted by Christina Agapakis at 12:01 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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