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From Moshe Pritsker:

[b]Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), www.myjove.com, FREE journal publishing video-protocols[/b]

JoVE is a newly founded online research journal that publishes video-articles on biological experiments (video-pro...

Nature group has released a set of review papers on the subject of Systems Biology. Luckily, they are available for free. So all you people can get a glimpse into the budding field of systems biology.

[URL=http://www.nature.com/focus/systemsbiolog...

Researchers at a French institute have resurrected an extinct virus from the human genome. Yes, you read it right, they resurrected it from the human genome itself. The virus, dubbed [i]phoenix[/i], is from a class of viruses known as retroviruses which ...

Microsoft has announced $500,000 funding for research on Computational Challenges in Synthetic Biology. It is a very exciting opportunity for synthetic biology researchers to give a boost to their research from the funding obtained.

Make sure you ...

iGEM competition this year took place at MIT with 37 teams from all over the world participating to make [i]cool[/i] biology projects. Take a look at the competition this year at: http://www.igem2006.com ...

[URL=https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/34274/1/synbio.plos.1031.pdf]This paper[/URL] details various issues regarding IP in Synthetic Biology. I haven't read it, but it seems interesting. It should serve as good pointer to budding Biohackers. 🙂 ...

[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10259&feedId=online-news_rss20]A new species of bacteria[/URL] has been discovered with minimalistic genome size having just over 180 genes and less than 200k bp. They say it could be an organelle into mak...

[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg19225731.100]This is an interesting account[/URL] of the possibilities of regeneration of environmentally greener [i]earth[/i] once the humans are wiped out instantly. Overall, the article, citing optimist...

The genetically modified bacteria ( [i]E. coli[/i] ) have been successfully engineered to produce biodiesel from glucose and plant oils. This could be used as an alternative to normal diesel fuels, thus off-setting greenhouse emissions. And in contrast t...

In yet another demonstration of weird but appropriate fusion of biology with other scientific areas, researchers have combined tobacco mosaic virus with platinum nanoparticles. This created super-fast transistors.

[URL=http://www.newscientisttech....