October 2009
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“(I love the Niels Bohr quote: “An expert is a person who has made all the...”
– Learning from Mistakes : The Frontal Cortex
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iGEM 2009 - Team Wikis →
The 2009 iGEM team wikis are up! Lots of great ideas and fun projects!
Oct 25th
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“And there’s also the matter of cells sucking. Trying to engineer living...”
– More Science For Science Writers / Science News
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Putting Genetic Tests to the Test →
earlyadaptor: Craig Venter and colleagues compare consumer genetic tests and suggest ways to make them more useful. An interesting study simply comparing the results from two different personal genomics companies. While the sequences sent back were almost perfectly matched, “For the seven diseases analyzed by the researchers, only about half of the risk factors provided by 23andme and...
Oct 16th
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“The nice thing about being an artist is that I can jump around from one area of...”
– At the Edge of Perception § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
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Trailer for SYNBIOSAFE, a documentary about the science and ethics of synthetic biology.
Oct 15th
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Sputnik Observatory  » Blog Archive  » DNA Manufacturing A short clip of Freeman Dyson discussing synthetic biology.
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Xtractaurs →
“Scientists have created powerful hybrids by extracting and combining dinosaur DNA. The right combinations can create Xtractaurs™ with the Secret Attacks needed to take on even the mightiest Megavores™! Do you have what it takes to create the strongest, fastest and toughest Xtractaurs™?”
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The Singularity
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“FAILURE is the condiment that gives success its flavor”
– Truman Capote (via nileshbabu)
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Understanding a cell's split personality aids... →
Different from what this press release says, bistability is a very well studied characteristic of many natural biological circuits, and is the basis for one of the first and most successful synthetic circuits back in 2000. What this paper shows is unexpected bistability emerging from how a cell responds to a synthetic network in an unpredicted way. It’s interesting to see papers in synthetic...
Oct 5th
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“To simulate a comet hitting pay dirt, Blank and her colleagues fire a bullet...”
– SPACE.com — Did Comet Crashes Help Spark Earth Life? I prefer a very broad definition of synthetic biology: trying to (re)create something about (life) science in order to understand it better. Shooting a bullet into a metal can may seem pretty far off from what it was like for a comet to...
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“I aspire to be an intellectual polygamist. And I deliberately use that metaphor...”
– (from “The Last Days of the Polymath”, www.moreintelligentlife.com) I am surprised by how often people still refer to the gaining of knowledge in such sexualized terms. From Francis Bacon’s definition of modern science as a “chaste and lawful marriage between Mind and...
Oct 1st