Definitely worth listening to the RadioLab show episode "So-Called Life". The second act describes some "MIT bioengineering kids" who engineered sweet smelling E.coli. I'm sure some of them interviewed hang out at OWW, like Reshma. The sound effects for gene exchange and "The BioEngineers song" at the end of the 2nd act is definitely worth listening to. Still trying to find a link to the song itsself.
The third act talks with founder of Codon Devices, George Church, and Craig. They describe George "as Santa Clause as played by Clark Gable."
We salute a show singing the praises of mighty microbes.
Tags: bioengineering, codon devices, craig venter, george church, openwetware, radio, synthetic biology
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1 Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics » » Bioengineer's song // Apr 10, 2008 at 5:58 pm
[...] out with those types. Check out the now posted the MP3 of the RadioLab synthetic biology story I blogged about before. Listen to the whole thing but you can skip ahead to about 39:00 to the "BioEngineer's song". No [...]
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2 Newell Bascomb // Mar 20, 2008 at 5:14 pm
What I heard of the Bioengineering song I thought was great. Hope someone can find a link - that's how I ended up here...cool place!
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3 O'Reilly Radar // Feb 25, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Radar Roundup: Bio
(Feedback to the first week was that there were too many links per day and they were too random. This week I'll try keeping it to 3-5 links, themed each day. First up: biotech and personal genomics.) Insurance Fears Lead...
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