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in The Biology Files
Microbes and Climate Change

Craig Venter's Synthetic Genome

Gibson DG, Glass JI, Lartigue C, Noskov VN, Chuang RY, Algire MA, Benders GA, Montague MG, Ma L, Moodie MM, Merryman C, Vashee S, Krishnakumar R, Assad-Garcia N, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Denisova EA, Young L, Qi ZQ, Segall-Shapiro TH, Calvey CH, Parmar PP, Hutchison CA 3rd, Smith HO, & Venter JC (2010). Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome. Science (New York, N.Y.) PMID: 20488990
Exam Term
Student Symposiums
In vivo | It works, but I don’t know why |
In vitro | It works if I fiddle the salt concentration |
In silico | The computer says it works! |
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It is known that | I’m sure I read a paper on this |
It is thought that | My supervisor thinks that |
It is generally thought that | The PostDoc agrees with the supervisor |
It is believed that | I think that |
Unpublished work by Dr. X shows that | My supervisors friends think that |
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Results were not conclusive… | It didn’t work |
… despite multiple repetitions… | Didn’t work the second time either |
…including work done by Dr. Y… | Still didn’t work when my supervisor did it |
…and collaboration with Dr. X… | Or my supervisors friends |
…and attempts at methods suggested by the literature… | IT IS SERIOUSLY NOT MY FAULT THAT THIS DIDN’T WORK |
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The results show | My correlations are good |
The results indicate | My correlations are present |
The results suggest | My correlations only work if you ignore the error bars |
The results seem to suggest | I have no correlations |
The results, although inconclusive, may be helpful… | I have no results |
Modelling Virotherapy for Cancer

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Friedman, A. (2006). Glioma Virotherapy: Effects of Innate Immune Suppression and Increased Viral Replication Capacity Cancer Research, 66 (4), 2314-2319 DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-2661