Capable of sequencing a billion base pairs per day this video from Helicos Biosciences shows the coolest piece of technology I’ve seen in a long while.
Just for comparison here is a description of the dominant Sanger sequencing method, which is how I used to get sequences back when I was still pretending to be a molecular biologist.
Cardiff’s new half-metre telescope is now operational. It’s even on twitter.
And while we are talking telescopes; SETI’s new radio telescopes just made first light.
Poster from the WETI institute. Hilarious, yet educational.
Musings on the .Astronomy conference will follow later.
Very cool video from Harvard, taking us on a whistle-stop tour of the inside of a cell. The first version is the condensed version with all the pretty animation and no actual science.
There is also the full 8 minute version where generic-science-guy actually explains what’s going on.
RealCLimate.org wins the prize for most educational April Fools joke with their post on the Sheep Albedo Feedback. Of course this isn’t a million miles away from DaisyWorld.
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