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OSLI – Synthetic Biology.

A good demonstration of the importance of Pharmacology :)))

By the way, anyone tryed kiund of fre traffic stull like this?

A set of video demonstrations about the properties and usage of liquid nitrogen were compiled on my new blog on blogger, here: http://labtutorialsinbiology.blogspot.com/

Carl Wieman, is a Nobel Laureate in Physics. He gave in the last years a series of lectures about the scientific assesment of teaching science.

On of these lectures about how to teach science given at Harvard can be seen here.

The conclusions are refreshing: there is a way of teaching science outside the laboratories too.

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You can have access to excellent books about important topics for FREE!!!
The most important issues of current days biology and science in general are adressed in reports of the comitees of the National academy. Whyle these are real bookks that can be purchased, you can download the pdf version for FREE from the National Academy Press.

These reports can be considered the framework of future grant openings, research trends, and a collection of the most important issues, that are in the mind of scientists.

So, go on and have a look on the topic Biology .

Dear all,

I decided to start a parallel blog on Blogspot called also Labtutorials inBiology. As a first step I moved the archives from WordPress to Blogger, and seems to be OK, although the links have to be rebuilt. This is a serious problem since in the mena time the original domain labtutorials.org went into parking , and it seems to be rather complicated for an uninitiated like me to fix the problem, especially with the two hours reaction time from Automattic, where the domain is registred.

I do not want to say that Blogger is better than WordPress, and I do not even want to compare it, but I have no time and energy to install a wordpress blog on my own server, that would enable all functionalities to work.

So by now I think I will clean the profiles, the WordPress blog, that is now availble at https://labtutorials.wordpress.com/ will be a collection of pure lab tutorial protocolls and descriptions. I will gather video protocolls and try to build a detaild lab tutorial site. On the blogger I will post much more ofthen news, ideas, book reviews and info about the world of biology that is comming.

This world seems to be very exciting, synthetic biology (through iGEM) and do-it-yourself biology will be probabbly the two pillars of it.

So keep in touch and stay tuned,

Balint.

Dear Colleagues,

You might have heard about iGEM, the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM). I personally became interested in this competition after Malcolm Campbell gave a lecture for us in December 2009. You can see his lectures including the one he gave at the University of Debrecen ( through video connection ) here.  The group coordinated by Malcolm has an excellent Synthetic Bio summary here.

Synthetic Biology is about changing the design of biological entities (like vectors or small systems) into a more predictable, engineer type design.

So we registered with a team Debrecen Hungary. I hope I can keep you updated with the developments.

The best short video about what synthetic biology is can be seen below.