Archive for July, 2008

Cancer has a cacophonous melody (really?)

Well, in my opinion, the following is quite bizarre: Gil Alterovitz, an electrical and biomedical engineer with proteomics skills (and MIT alumnus, as well), is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music.

I’m not kidding. Recently, the Technology Review (TR) published an article on this guy’s conversion of genetic activity into […]


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High GC content gene synthesis

This success story was provided by the group of Prof. Dr. Bechthold (Pharmaceutical Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg)
This synthetic gene was prepared by Mr Gene while other companies refused to synthesize the gene due to a very high GC content.
Order submitted: March 18th - gene finalized: April 17th
Length: 471 bp - GC content: 71 %

The pharmaceutical activity […]


Wikification of Genes – next Effort

Have you noticed, yet, that the wwweb has swollen up like people’s bellies after Christmas? As an example, take the ten thousands of wikis that congest the virtual world. Each of them is an epitome of wisdom (well, let’s face it: most wikis are as superfluous as the fifth leg of an antelope).
Recently, the wiki […]


Be a record holder (and a Nobel Price winner, too)!

How’s work going? For my share, experiments have been going awry for weeks (and still are) while my demanding lab taskmaster is becoming more and more bad-tempered (and so am I!).
Tons of failed experiments in mind, my research grant running out at lightning-speed and the next sensational blockbuster paper out of reach, I brainstormed about […]