Earlier this year I did a tip on the 3D Virtual Worm browser from the OpenWorm team. At that time, there wasn’t a publication to accompany that post. And since these tools get much more visibility when the posts go to ScienceSeeker and Research Blogging I wanted to revisit this now that there is a [...]
The field of synthetic biology has been simmering for quite a while. It occasionally takes a big leap, such as when Venter’s team published about their work on M. genitalium, and it took a big leap recently with the paper about modeling a lot of the cellular processes in a simple cell that I talked [...]
My twitter feed exploded over the last few days with conflama around the new publication about the simulation of the biological processes in a cell. Most of the ire was aimed at a fawning NYT piece that hyped the paper. And yes–the newspaper article is flawed; Jonathan Eisen spoke to that, and then filleted it [...]
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