This is quite possibly the smallest gel I have ever run: To put this in perspective, usual gel-running machines are big clunky plastic thin...

As I covered in this post , one of the main aims of synthetic biology is to produce modular building blocks for biology, to design and buil...

One of the main features of synthetic biology is that it should work very much like Lego . Genes are acquired from a standard registry, and...

Well...today was going to be the day the we started the 'wet-work' of the project, the actual laboratory procedure rather than the ...

One of the things I'll be doing in my project over the next few weeks is designing a synthetic microbiological system; inserting differ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I'm currently doing a two-week course in synthetic biology. Along with scientists and engineered there ...

As I write, I am busy on another computer programing an Arduino board to make little lights flash on and off. Thee guy next to me has made ...

The latest Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival is up over at mauka to makai . It's a collection of sciencey -blog posts, with a mix of...

Most work on bacterial resistance to antibiotics tends to start with genetics. If a bacteria is able to survive a certain antibiotic, it is ...

The first forays into microscopy revealed a whole world of blobs, tiny microscopic organisms that were invisible to the naked eye. These wen...