Today is International DNA Day, commemorating the day in 1953 when Crick, Watson, Wilkins and Franklin published their papers on the structure of DNA. Fifty years later, with the declaration that the human genome project was close to completion the US Senate and the House of Representatives declared that 25 ^th April 2003 would be the first DNA Day, and ever since many (including ourselves through many blogs) have commemorated the date.

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As another DNA Day treat GigaByte today publishes new benchmark data and analysis of the new CycloneSEQ platform, a novel sequencing technology using nanopores that demonstrates here the ability to sequence complete bacterial genomes. Getting our hands on a CycloneSeq sequencer Following on from the recent official launch of BGI’s new CycloneSEQ single-molecule sequencer the new Data Release published today in GigaByte presents

It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television. The twentieth anniversary gives us an opportunity to pause and consider where our subject is and might go. We will host a range of international scholars who will discuss television studies as a discipline.

Re gular readers may have followed our community genome project Bauhinia Genome, and today marks the end of this journey with the publication in GigaScience of

Twelve years ago, a 2 a.m. email kickstarted the Open Access Button, OA.Work’s first scrappy attempt at making Open Access easier and more equitable. To mark this milestone, I wanted to share some of what we’re celebrating on this birthday, including some of the team’s recent achievements, where we are today, and the fact that our days now end at more humane hours… though my newborn hasn’t quite received the memo yet.

I get asked a lot how I have the time to read all these papers and articles I post about here. I don’t. Not all of them at least. I listen to many of them. Lately I’ve been using an app called ElevenReader , made by the popular text-to-speech service ElevenLabs. It’s free for iOS and Android.

Classified Transmission : NBCO Operational Network | Node 19 | Biosentinel Correspondence Clearance : Nova Five Author : Agent Delta-Rook Subject : Field Report: Midwestern Deployment of Modular Biofabrication Unit She stood in the dark, the smell of corn husks and carbon steel mixing in the early morning fog.

I made a zine as a souvenir of my Design Justice student group presentations.

von Elisa Tizzoni Kann eine schlichte Arbeitstabelle Interesse für ein bisher vernachlässigtes Thema in der europäischen Geschichte auslösen? Und kann ein Blick auf die Dokumentation des EU-Parlaments Überlegungen über die Rolle des Tourismus in unserer Gesellschaft und seine Auswirkungen auf die europäische Integration anregen?

“The claws were bad enough in the first place – nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace – if it could! […] Across the ground something small and metallic came, flashing in the dull sunlight…