Read [URL=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061112094812.htm]this interesting news[/URL]. It may be relevant to AI theorists and experimenters. ...
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Journal of Visualized Experiments, a Video-journal for biological research
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...
Systems Biology Review papers
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...
Resurrection of a virus
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 announces Synthetic Biology
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 2006
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 ...
Intellectual Property Issues in Synthetic Biology
[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. ๐ ...
The limit of genomic tinyness
[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...
What if the human species is wiped out tommorrow?
[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...
Synthetic Biology makes (bio) diesel
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...