This is what happens when we spend more time fighting off creationists than teaching evolution — we get replaced by people who do things right:
Firms shop overseas, this time for talent - Technology - International Herald Tribune
The American executives who are planning to send work abroad express concern about what they regard as an [...]

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I’m taking a tissue engineering course right now, (see previous post), and this has rekindled my interest in cellular automata. I was first introduced to them by Stephen Wolfram’s book, A New Kind of Science (freely available online). This is one of the books that helped me to understand how complex life can develop [...]

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I’ve read some articles, but none have been terribly interesting, and the ones that were focused on tissue engineering, not cardiac electrophysiology.

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A well-written article on collagen, why it’s important, and how scientists have finally synthesized it in long strands is over on Biosingularity. It’s well worth a read.
Biosingularity » Blog Archive » Scientists find a way to make human collagen
The Wisconsin team discovered a way to make the long, slender collagen molecules, in essence, [...]

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The author of HubMed (an alternative and nicer interface to PubMed’s database) recently posted an online journal review on his blog. While he prefers PDFs (as do I, for now), there are various aspects of articles-in-HTML that make them more or less useful and easy to read. All of the major publishers of online biomedical [...]

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