new years
Other original images can be viewed here. (No, they are not New Year's, but they are fireworks!)
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…