While browsing you tube I came across this really nice animation of DNA replication, transcription and translation complete with imaginative sound effects. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Also take a look at this video for a less pretty but more informative animation.
Some time back, Suzanne wrote a really funny article full of ideas for reality TV shows for scientists, and one idea a reality show showing everday life in the lab. About a few days back one a friend of mine twittered me a link to a documentary film shot by Richard & Carole Rifkind. Richard [...]
Keeping safe in the lab really only requires one thing: common sense. But if you look at what people are doing in the lab, you might think that that common sense isn’t so common after all. What are the most stupid things you have seen people do in the lab to put the safety of [...]
If you’ve been interested in the Folding at Home project, but wanted to play a much more active role then your wait is over.
About thirteen years ago, a group of science journalists gathered in a darkened lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The lights went off, and the participants took turns donning a clunky helmet with darkened visor. By moving the right thumb, each helmet-wearing reporter suddenly was whisked down the middle of protein ribbon, twisted through [...]
