Science Art
sporte | April 8, 2015National DNA Day has a fun challenge for teachers and classrooms using Pinterest. Your class can join a larger, national, effort to create a National DNA Day Pinterest board by making your own class Pinterest board on DNA, genetics, and genomics. Some possible topics are:
Things to do with DNA
DNA and health
DNA and the Arts
DNA in the News
We're really excited about the topic on DNA and the Arts!
Here's how you can make some lovely DNA Art images for your Pinterest board in Molecule World on an iPad or, if you don't have access to an iPad, you can use Cn3D.
1. Go to our DNA search at…
finchtalk | April 24, 2014Today (4/25) is national DNA day. Digital World Biology™ is celebrating by sharing some of our favorite structures of DNA. We created these photos with Molecule World™ a new iPad app for viewing molecular structures.
As we are taught in school, the double stranded DNA molecule is a right-handed helix as determined by Watson and Crick using Franklin's x-ray diffraction images [1]. This B-form of DNA has approximately 10 nucleotides per turn of the helix and is the most common form of DNA found in nature.
Classic structure with the elements colored.
Classic structure with the bases…
sporte | March 16, 2008Things move off of our entry page pretty quick sometimes. If you missed this post from Bioephemera, go take a look.
She has great pictures and a fascinating story about one Seattle's favorite places.
sporte | February 14, 2008Believe it or not, this is a DNA kiss.
Have a loverly Valentine's DNA!
(And just in case you're wondering, yes, I did put it on a coffee mug.)
sporte | December 17, 2007No, you can't have a glow-in-the-dark kitty.
But never fear, the SciBlings and I have other ideas for holiday gifts.
If you really have your heart set on glowing animals, and you don't live in California, you can get a tankful of lovely glowing fish, genetically engineered with a different version of the protein (GFP) used to make the glow-in-the-dark cats.
If you prefer clothing over pets, there's the pathogenic line of formal wear.
If you've got a child on your list, Janet wrote about these last year, but hey, building sets are always fun. Or, if your kids like other kinds of toys, Janet…
sporte | December 16, 2007Maybe there's something a little bit odd about having a gingerbread construction contest to raise funds for researching juvenile diabetes.
Maybe these gingerbread houses aren't environmentally proper or particularly sustainable.
But they are impressive.
If you're in Seattle over the holidays, you can see them at the Sheraton Hotel until Jan 2nd and even help fund research on juvenile diabetes.
Some more examples are below.
sporte | December 1, 2007The grocery store magazine covers all say that home made gifts are big this year. So I thought, some of you might like to channel your inner Martha Stewart and make gifts with a science theme.
I'm here to help to you make a merry mug with one of our favorite molecules. Yep, we're talking caffeine.
1. First, we'll go to PubChem at the NCBI. It's not an exclusive (or even last) resort but there are lots of fancy molecules hanging around, just waiting to be discovered and put onto drinking containers.
2. Now, we'll look for a molecule. I'm going to use caffeine for this example since I…
sporte | November 22, 2007Would you recognize your leftovers when they're magnified? Would you know turkey if you saw it at 40X?
Make a guess and click an image to see the answer.
technorati tags: Thanksgiving, food science, microscopy
Copyright Geospiza, Inc.
sporte | September 3, 2007The Capitol Hill Seattle blog has a great set of lunar eclipse photos on flickr.
sporte | August 10, 2007Here's a lovely DNA structure from our friend, human immunodeficiency virus I. I especially like the way that two heart-like shapes appear in the structure.
tags: DNA structure, DNA , molecular structure, biochemistry
Is nature ironic or what?
sporte | May 17, 2007Dave says that your drinking container reveals your philosophical side.
Janet, being a teacher, only uses mugs that she gets as free gifts.
At Geospiza, I use the communal mugs that I find in the cupboard. Most of these mugs seem to come from now-defunct biotech companies who handed them out at meetings. One of my all time favorites, though, is a really cool mug that I got from Betty Kutter with a picture of phage T4 and a map of its genome. The pictures are getting worn away, but I still like the mug.
At home, I drink out of these:
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One of these mugs was a gift. I made the…
sporte | December 31, 2006When two different people sent me this link, I realized that it had to be shared.
The Eye of Science gallery has all kinds of pictures taken by microscopists.
I am a great fan of microscopic crystals. Here are crystals of every shape and kind - with some lovely views of snowflakes. Plus, there are wonderful pictures of bacteria (E. coli, Leptospira, Streptococcus pneumoniae) the SARS virus, diatoms, pollen, fungi, parasites, cat embryos, hornets, bone tissue, nylon, and more.
Enjoy!
sporte | November 7, 2006This is worth taking a look. Go see the 2006 winners in the Nikon Small World Gallery.
There are lovely images of the nuclei in a mouse colon, cyanobacteria and a diatom, a fluorescent aquatic worm, a lovely picture of a transgenic tobacco species, a beautiful picture of a sea urchin embryo in metaphase, a lovely image of some Hela cancer cells, and so very much more, that I can't believe you're still here. Off you go!