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Dan Rhoads

Dan is a postdoc working at the University of Cyprus in developmental biology. He has a BSc in molecular biology and a PhD pharmacology and biochemistry.

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I’m a frequent lurker on a wide variety of life science blogs, and one of those blogs that I’ve recently started to really appreciate is What’s New in Life Science Research at Scienceblogs. As a blog it has promise, although I’m hoping that some of the posts go into greater depth with their analyses of up-and-coming biotechnologies. One great post was by Hsein-Hsein:

It’s All About Money [GMO and Profits]
A quote from the article: “But add the profit motive and the ability to patent lifeforms and you get attempts by individual corporations to corner the worldwide market in one species after another, which is bad for farmers and consumers, and you also get thuggish attempts to subvert independent research, which is bad for science.”

How the Texas Board of Ed. misrepresented a Nobel Prize winner
The title says it all really and isn’t that surprising perhaps — but for those following the evolution-creation wars for American classrooms, it’s the latest hot news.

And to round out this brief survey of the blogosphere…
Peering into the Genetic Future: trends in human genomics in 2009

Okay, that’s it. There just weren’t any recent posts with strong analysis outside of Scienceblogs that I could find lately. Come on you independents. Get to it! (Bitesize Bio however has been great this past week — check out some of our posts!)