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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...

I saw this absolutely stunning documentary movie called [I]'March of the Penguins'[/I]. It shows the complete lifespan of the Emperor Penguin in the Antartica. The mother and father fight death and cold so that the baby may surive. Everything they do m...

Here, I will be listing the techniques I am learning at IISc, Bangalore

Wet Techniques ------------------ 1. Lysate Preparation 2. Transduction 3. Plating and Streaking 4. PCR 5. Inoculation 6. DNA Gel Electrophoresis 7. Be...

I have reached IISc. I will be working in Prof. Mahadevan's lab in Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics. The lab is nice with many equipment. I will probably be working on bgl operon in bacteria (cryptic genes).

The work seems to be i...

I will be going to Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore tommorrow for two months of summer research. This will be my first full-blown research experience. I am too excited about this. I guess this will decide my long-term future. ...

Hi All,

This is to announce that Jeev June, 2006 edition has been launched. To read the issue, click to [URL]http://www.dce.edu/jeev/issues/june06/index.php[/URL].

For those of you who don't know what Jeev is, it is an online life sciences...

In the past week I observed three peculiar biological phenomena. I wonder why these were evolved. The observations:

1. I have a money plant at my place. I observed that only alternate leaves on a stem dry up. Why? 2. The bananas start ripening ...

Phew.... Finally, the first draft of my research paper "[B]Evolved Cellular Automata for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction[/B]" is complete. I guess the paper needs more revisions. But, I am feeling quite happy as this is my first research paper. ...