new years

Happy New Year!

illconsidered | January 2, 2015

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Top Science Stories of 2010: 6 Degrees of Microbial Separation

Environment heathero | January 4, 2011

Thanks to Viktor at StrippedScience for letting me borrow his microbe New Year's cartoon! Happy New Year! I was catching up on my blog reader and came across the NatureNews top science stories of 2010. I was curious how many of these stories would have something to do with microbes... turns out quite a few do. Of the 12 science news-worthy events/discoveries selected, 3 were directly related: the claim of Arsenic-based life story, the new HIV drug Truvada (including viruses with microbes), and the synthetic genome from the Ventner institute. In the style of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon I…