It’s Friday again – have a look at BioTechniques’ Lab Grammys 2012: Science Parody of the Year (with thanks to American Biotechnologist).
OFFBEAT archive.
It’s Friday, so have a break and play the Genome Engineering game for May – Cut It Out.
After the genome, the proteome and the lipidome, now the beard-ome…
Not really a story about genetics or genomics, but a nice piece of science. In JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry writes a question and gets the answer in writing on the pages of a diary. A team of Australian researchers have developed a blood test, published in Angewandte Chemie, where the blood type results appear in plain text.
Science has announced the fifth year of its Dance Your PhD international competition, where you translate your graduate work into an interpretive dance that captures the essence of your work, is a piece of creative art, and presents your research in a way that anyone can understand.
Today, 20 April 2012, we would like to wish you a very happy DNA Day. DNA Day commemorates Watson & Crick’s 1953 publication of the structure of DNA, without which we wouldn’t have this blog…
Want some DNA on a shirt? In Our Genes is a genetic art company producing organic clothes with artistically-rendered DNA prints of some challenging human diseases. On the market so far are shirts featuring the FOXL2 gene, genes behind ovarian cancer and genes for heart disease.
In DNA: The Double Helix, your job is to make exact copies of a DNA molecule from three random organisms and find out which organisms they are. Move the codons to copy the DNA and then pick the organism. Harder than it looks!
Those of you busy writing manuscripts might find this post from the Bug Geek hauntingly familiar…
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