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Well it seems that this comic explains why DNA, Collagen and alpha helix are all right handed. Take a look at Madeline’s comic page you can find other funny scientific comics.

Those of you who have something to do with biology know the importance of PCR in molecular biology today, for those of you who don’t know what Polymerase Chain Reaction is (or don’t care), in short one can say PCR did the same thing to Molecular Biology research that Transistor did to electronics! This is [...]

Interesting news in Stem Cell Research: Nature News, A California company has brought human cloning research to a new level with efficient production of cloned human blastocysts. If you want to be updated about stem cell research news, Nature Reports Stem Cells is a valuable resource. I saw this amazing video of Dolphins playing with [...]

One of the great advantages of the growth of internet especially for scientists is the amount of freely available resources that one can find. Many of these resources are freely available for non commercial and educational purposes, like the valuable power point goldmine I introduced here! When I was doing my bachelor so many online [...]

The first Biodiesel powered Jet:Scientific Americal: A 1968 L-29 Czechoslovakian jet—dubbed BioJet 1—flew up to 17,000 feet (5,180 meters) over 37 minutes powered 100% on cooking oil. A three minute, 15-second test the day before was the world’s first flight entirely fueled by cooking oil. Talking about Fuel and alternative energy sources, in Nature collections, [...]

Nikon has an annual competition called International Small World Competition which is meant for those involved in photography through the light microscope. The following picture is the second place winner. Real beauty, isn’t it? The picture is a fluorescent picture of a 3 day old embryonic zebra fish brain. Michael Hendricks, has taken this picture [...]

As I was surfing in the internet I saw these beautiful pictures of Mobula Ray, in the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. In this page you can read about them and see some more pictures. Talking about fishes and ocean, a while ago I was discussing with a colleague that how few is our knowledge [...]

If you work in life science, as I do, it often happens that you want to prepare a presentation for a meeting or a talk, and you have to spend hours preparing illustrations to make it easier for the audience to understand your subject. A colleague of mine sent me an interesting website today (thanks [...]

The winners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes were announced. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they are [...]