Tag Archives: Web Resources

Forget World of Warcraft… CellCraft: a Fantastic and Informational Cell Biology Flash Game

By jyaron | Published: July 9, 2010
I was pleasantly surprised to discover a new flash game that was released today at Kongregate Games. CellCraft is a truly great flash game about building, controlling, and surviving as a human cell, viewed at the microscopic scale. I was even more surprised to find how accurate the game was, depicting organelles correctly and even [...]
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Visualize the Unbelievably Small Scale of the Cell (and other Biological Structures)

By jyaron | Published: November 11, 2009
Single cells are small. Really, REALLY small. When you read that a suspended cell is approximately 10-15 microns in diameter it all seems fine and well; you’ll write it down or take note of it, then move along. However, if you stop to think about how small 10-15 microns is, it begins to baffle your [...]
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4 Services Offering Genetic Art

By jyaron | Published: September 6, 2009
Genetic analysis is becoming more widespread and less expensive every day. There are a few companies out now that are taking advantage of this and offering its customers unique, personal, and completely biologically sound art based on their genetic code. DNA 11 DNA 11 is easily the most popular and successful of the various services [...]
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5 Great Online Tools for Biologists

By jyaron | Published: August 9, 2009
Biology (and its related fields) are less and less frequently sciences that must only be studied in the field. There are a great number of resources online that can aid biologists and researchers in expanding the productivity of their research. Here are 5 great online tools for biologists and researchers. 1. BLAST Database The NCBI [...]
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New Web-based Evolution Tool

By jyaron | Published: August 7, 2009
Sudhir Kumar (Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University) and  Blair Hedges (Penn State) have released a new web-based tool for comparing the evolutionary divergence times between multiple organisms. The tool is called the Timetree of Life and it (along with the book published at the same time) is expected to become a top resource for evolutionary [...]
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