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Synthetic Genes, Synthetic Cells – Synthetic Life
Nature needed about one billion years to create the simplest single-cell organisms that swam around in the primordial soup. Now, scientists are eager to create synthetic life – but better and faster.
On Man and Microbes – Barry Marshall
In the summer of 1984, the Australian scientist Neil Noakes took some bacteria from a petri dish, mixed them with lukewarm beef extract – the normal nutrient solution for bacteria in the lab – and filled a little more than one cup into a beaker. Then he handed this mix to his colleague, the gastroenterologist […]
Interview with Edmond Fischer: pianist, microbe hunter, pilot and Napoleon expert
Edmond Fischer shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edwin Krebs "for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism". I had the chance to talk to him in Lindau last week. My name is Edmond Fischer, but everybody calls me Ed. I’m a retired professor at the University of Washington […]