Around The Blogs

In this week’s around the blogs - biorap, one-ton tomatoes and a PCR machine that fits into your pocket.

You still have to do the experiments. Thomas writes about how even in this data-rich, high-throughput-screen driven “pentabyte age” the old hypothesize-model-test approach is still relevant.

That’s a lot of ketchup. Could a genetically engineered one-ton tomato could be on the cards, asks Keith at Omics!Omics!?

Rap it up. At ScienceRoll, Berci flags up two video clips. One is an amazing bio animation from Hybrid Medical Animationand the other, a not so amazing bio-rap, which I suppose could get into the lower reaches of our biopop top 10!.

The Dirty Dozen’t. David Bradley at ScienceBase comments on public “chemophobia” and how the UNEP Dirty Dozen Chemicals list, doesn’t help.

Superficial science. This great article at Adaptive complexity suggests that the fragmenting your working day by doing many things at once is a poor approach to science. We agree.

Protein mobility. At Life of a Lab Rat, The Black Knight is viewing protein structures on his iPhone. Whatever next?

and finally…

PCR-pod. Check out this Aminopop post about an amazing palm-sized PCR machine that has just come onto the market. Available in three colors!