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	<description>Genetically Engineered Organisms, Systems Biology, and Synthetic Biology from an Engineer&#039;s Viewpoint</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Meat 2.0&#8243;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In synthetic biology conferences, engineering improvements of food is listed in the top three applications of the new technology.  As an example, George Church&#8217;s lab developed a genetic engineering technology specifically aimed at evolving super-tomatoes containing high amounts of the anti-oxident lycopene, as proof-of-concept.  Frequent brainstorming &#8220;what could syn bio do?&#8221; sessions include ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford University: Programmable Microfluidics (2007) &#8211; Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 3, 2007 lecture by Bill Thies for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Bill Thies provides an overview of microfluidic technologies from a computer science perspective, highlight areas in the which computer science researchers can contribute to this field; he will also describe recent work in developing new architectures, programming languages, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make some simple biology lab tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes biology lab tools are really simple, and ridiculously obvious (i.e., a petri dish?).   Yet most of the general public form the idea that biology, chemistry, or even nanotechnology, is impossible because we don&#8217;t have high-tech tools.  Maybe it&#8217;s because the research papers always use big words, half of which are some form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Play Fold.it, the &#8220;Tetris-On-Steroids&#8221; game that solves protein folding</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Protein folding&#8221; is what again?
It&#8217;s this: Foldit (curiously, at the web address: &#8220;fold.it&#8221;).  And it&#8217;s fun to play.  Addictive, really.  Check out the picture:

After I had been playing a while, my 8-year old niece came over to my laptop to see what the cute sound-effects were all about.  After a minute of watching, she said:  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Seminar on Systems Biology: New Approaches, New Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 90-minute webinar (web seminar) on Systems Biology as a &#8220;new approach&#8221; in solving today&#8217;s health problems &#8212; includes summary of what systems biology is, how it is emerging as a current technology, and methods for addressing &#8220;systems medicine&#8221;.
Systems Biology: New Approaches, New Tools and Implications for Human Health Care
The original event was broadcast on:
Date: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 3 of 5: “Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics” by James Tisdall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous write-ups of Part 1 and Part 2, I traced the Perl code and examples in the first half of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, highlighting different approaches to bioinformatics in Perl.  As I mentioned before, Perl provides many different (and often stylistic) methods to solving a software problem.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 2 of 5: &#8220;Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics&#8221; by James Tisdall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Part 1 of 5 review of the book, Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics, by James Tisdall, left off at Chapter 8, just before Tisdall explains associative arrays, gene expression, FASTA files, genomic databases, and restriction sites.
Tisdall: &#8220;For simplicity, let&#8217;s say you have the names for all the genes in the organism and a number for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In-Depth Review, Part 1 of 5: &#8220;Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics&#8221; by James Tisdall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a specialized field, Bioinformatics is rather young.  It can be difficult to find universities which teach bioinformatics.  Bioinformatics can refer to many different types of tasks &#8212; from using programs and data without any computer science knowledge, to implementing database or web software, to writing data conversion programs which modify file formats between database [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biology &amp; Life Science Textbooks for Download via NIH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resources at NIH and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI):
Entrez is the integrated, text-based search and retrieval system used at NCBI for the major databases, including PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
Of particular educational interest is the NCBI Bookshelf, a growing collection of biomedical books with fully readable content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Microbiology Prove (the Intelligent Evolutionary Design of) God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DNA and biology is incredibly complex.  Is there any coherency to the design of organisms?  Is there an intelligent or systematic method involved in the creation of life and the reproduction of life?  There are exploratory studies on the study of the origin of life.
Antoine Danchin, Ph.D., Institut Pasteur
The Bacterial Core Genome is an Archive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How PCR Works to Modify DNA (&amp; Build New Organisms)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JonathanCline</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental construction step of building modified biological organisms is by using PCR.
The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used to amplify a single or few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating millions or more copies of the DNA piece.  This is a chemical reaction involving a heat-stable DNA polymerase, [...]]]></description>
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