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The first biologically produced Nanotubes

Semiconducting nanotubes produced by bacteria Shewanella .

More details at The Biotech weblog

Rare documents and photographs of Einstein-A feast

New scientist's short sharp science recommends some excellent illustrated science books ,one of which is on Einstein.

Zooming into DNA

Look here for amazing images of cells, chromosomes and DNA from 100X to 900,000X.

Biotechnology Jobs in India-Bridging skill gaps

Biospectrum has comeout with a report of study conducted by IIM Bangalore on Biotech jobs and shortage of manpower for the same. One of the reasons for talent crunch according to the study is

The content being taught at the various institutes was also found to be obsolete and not in sync with industry needs. There was no national task force focusing on constant upgradation of the curriculum to meet industry needs

Will this situation change ? Why is Biotechnology taking a backseat ?

Top 10 discoveries of 2007

Time magazine has listed the top 10 discoveries.

Frog with fluorescent purple markings,legless amphibian, human heart valve out of stem cells... wow..amazing.

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Amazing talk-A journey to the center of your mind

Dedicated to education - A site for teachers.

Science roll points to a webpage called Pageflakes for teachers.
Have a look at it.

Awesome video - Wasps injecting venom into cockroach brain

As Carl zimmer at The Loom puts it,it is an awesome parasitic manipulation.

Don't miss the Newscientist update and video of jewel wasps attack on Zombie cockroaches

Menstrual stem cells - monthly miracle???????????????

Weird Science.

The Scientific activist points to a report in the Journal of Translational medicine on isolation and characterisation of stem cells from menstrual blood.

Take a look at the site for how a company has rushed to give details of the promising research and its benefits.

Are these Endometrial Regenerative Cells (ERCs ) going to help?

Textbooks-Essential or Superfluous?

CBE-Life Science Education has an article on the relevance of textbooks in this mordern era.The author shares his experience of teaching with and without a textbook.

Are textbooks just for reference and not learning tools?

Take a look.

The author has given some webpages containing course materials

1. Biofundamentals (http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB1111)

2.Flash based virtual laboratories (http://bioliteracy.net/)