Archive for November, 2008
Quicker change - conventional vs. convenient mutant generation
This success story was provided by Dr. B. Pohn & Dr. S. Feichtenhofer (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Austria)
11 mutations and a deletion at one sweep
evolving mutant generation from conventional to convenient
To answer the question concerning the correlation between a structural feature of a wild-type enzyme and the activity towards a […]
And the winners are:
finally - all winners have received their iPods. Thanks for participating in Mr. Gene’s SynBio 4.0 iPod lottery!
#1
iPod® touch:
Martin Jennings, PhD, University of Manchester, UK
#2
iPod® nano:
Irina Borodina, PhD, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
#3 … 10
iPod® shuffle:
Nicholas Wall, Graduate Student, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Craig Ellermeier, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, USA
Filipe Pinto, PhD […]
The truth about credits
There’s one thing that is more thrilling for a scientist than his thrilling experiment’s results themselves.
It’s the author’s ranking on the resulting publication. This ranking always gives pain, being the reason for hassle and hatred between former colleagues and close collaboration partners.
Of course, the most important position on a scientific paper is the first one. […]
