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Participate in Journal Clubs on PLoS ONE!
Journal Clubs are a popular feature on PLoS ONE papers. There were several of them in the spring. Now, after a brief summer break, the Journal Clubs are going live again and they will happen on a...
View ArticleInternational Genetically Engineered Machine competition
My friend Franz, who runs a delightful blog Mikrob(io)log (in Slovenian) alerted me that the team of undergraduates from the University of Ljubljana won the iGEM 2007 at MIT the other day. They did it...
View ArticleViruses in the Oceans: join the latest Journal Club
Brendan Bohannan, Richard W. Castenholz, Jessica Green and their students and postdcos at the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Oregon are currently doing a Journal Club on...
View ArticleMicrobial genomics in PLoS
Considering this I am kinda baffled by this. There is tons of microbial metagenomics and genomics in PLoS journals.
View ArticleA cellular riddle
It takes 38 minutes for the E.coli genome to replicate. Yet, E.coli can bo coaxed to divide in a much shorter time: 20 minutes. How is this possible? Larry poses the riddle and provides the solution....
View Article‘The Hairy Beast’ or ‘Super Virgin’?
Ha! Made you look! Which is exactly the point! Go and add your own ideas in the comments there….
View ArticleWhen science bloggers publish, then blog about it ;-)
On Tuesday night, when I posted my personal picks from this week’s crop of articles published in PLoS ONE, I omitted (due to a technical glitch on the site), to point out that a blog-friend of mine...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson – Bioterrorist?
You may have heard the story that Scarlett Johansson had a cold when she appeared on Jay Leno’s show the other day. And you may have heard that she got the cold from her ‘The Spirit’ co-star Samuel L....
View ArticleNew microbiology aggregator
New microbiology aggregator just went live in Belgrade, built (as always) by Vedran Vucic.
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Yes, Archaea also have circadian clocks!
If you ever glanced at the circadian literature, you have probably encountered the statement that “circadian rhythms are ubiquitous in living systems”. In all of my formal and informal writing I...
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