Be passionate about the territory, not the map
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.
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John Horgan argues that the [URL=http://www.discover.com/issues/oct-06/cover/?page=1]pure science has ended[/URL]. Full Stop.
I don't understand how one can call the end of pure science when we have huge gaps in basic knowledge such as the [i]or...
I don't know if they are mutually incompatible, but Richard Dawkins certainly thinks so. See [URL]http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/04/30/dawkins/index.html[/URL] for an excellent interview of his on the same topic.
PS: I am a (Atheist...
We are happy to release yet another issue of Jeev. [URL=http://www.dce.edu/jeev/issues/oct06/index.php]The October issue of Jeev[/URL] has an eclectic array of articles. The table of contents for the latest issue is... Dear All,
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You might be thinking what kind of a post on Entrepreneurship is doing on the blog Biohacking. Well, the fact is that for the last 2-3 weeks I am in pretty charged-up mood. The other week, I read [URL=http://www.businessworld.in/SEP0406/index.asp]Busines...
Do these things have anything in common? If you think no, then think again because the genius lies in connecting unconnected concepts in a meaningful manner. Robert Axelrod, a political scientist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US, has applie...
There is much hype (or truth? ) around the net that [URL=http://www.perl.com/]Perl[/URL] is THE language for bioinformatics. Having already learnt and programmed in [URL=http://www.python.org/]Python[/URL], I somehow feel that the claims made by any prog...
See this [URL=http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7854314]Life 2.0[/URL]. ...
Dear All,
This is to inform that our review paper titled: "Engineering life through Synthetic Biology" has been published in the journal In Silico Biology. The paper can be read at: [URL=http://www.bioinfo.de/isb/2006/06/0038/]http://www.bioinfo...
[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9737&feedId=online-news_rss20]This news story[/URL] writes about a new strategy for combating HIV. The summary of the method is this. A sample of HIV is removed from the patient's body. Outside the body, ...