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It's really a bit of departure from the kinds of articles I normally see in Nature, but it's pretty cool anyways. I suppose it's the sort of the thing the authors would like to use teachers to get their students interested, but I'm not sure how many elemtary/secondary school teachers (much less students!) actually read Nature.

Let the science begin!
http://www.nature.com/nature/comics/syntheticbiologycomic/index.html

edit: there is an actual science article that accompanies this piece, but I don't think you can access it unless you or your school has a subscription.

Lol! That reminds me of all the fun I had as an undergraduate trying to get bacterial stocks to make protein (while I was a slave, er, intern at the Salk Institute in the structural biochemistry lab). Fortunately I didn't have to make the plasmid -- that came prefabbed; I just had to do all the grunt work of placing it, incubation and then separation.

Kinda reminds me of The Magic School bus...in the sense that they are trying to make Science more interesting.

ChristianRonin wrote:Kinda reminds me of The Magic School bus...in the sense that they are trying to make Science more interesting.

I expect it's something like that. Then again, anyone who reads Nature is probably already interested in science.

Lol! That reminds me of all the fun I had as an undergraduate trying to get bacterial stocks to make protein (while I was a slave, er, intern at the Salk Institute in the structural biochemistry lab).

You worked at the Salk Institute. Cool!. They have a lot of really good neuroscience people there.

Yeah I liked the Magic School bus because they went to funky places... Like inside some guys body. I couldn't of cared less about the science back then XD

Technomancer wrote:You worked at the Salk Institute. Cool!. They have a lot of really good neuroscience people there.

They do. At the time, though, I figured biochem would translate into a better medical school application ^_^;; And the PI did write me a nice letter of recommendation.

If I'd had my druthers now, I might have fiddled over in their cog sci labs as well, but I did that on the main UCSD campus instead.