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...
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God and Evolution
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...
Jeev – October, 2006 issue released
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,
We are happy to r...
Budding (Bio)Entrepreneur
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...
Game Theory and Cancer
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...
Perl V/S Python
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...
YASBC – Yet Another Synthetic Biology Coverage
See this [URL=http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7854314]Life 2.0[/URL]. ...
Engineering life through Synthetic Biology
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...
Training the immune system to fight HIV
[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, ...
Digital Evolution
Have you heard of the names [URL=http://www.his.atr.jp/~ray/tierra/]Tierra[/URL], [URL=http://dllab.caltech.edu/avida/]Avida[/URL] or [URL=http://www.greythumb.org/twiki/bin/view/GreyThumb/Nanopond]Nanopond[/URL]? If you are an evolutionary biologist (or...