I’m alive again.
It’s been… More than a year since I’ve uploaded anything to this blog. During that time only thing I’ve written long form were occasional tumblr posts dealing with what’s been happening in my life or some dry master plan to rule the universe through the power of science, typical student stuff. I’ve stopped blogging on … Read more
Barcode the World
I’ve always been curious about DNA barcoding. Interest in wides-scale DNA barcoding exercise had been around for a long time, in part due to potential for amateur scientists to contribute to cause of the sciences using relatively minimal and easily obtained equipments and reagents. There had been some high-profile events and articles involving DNA barcoding techniques … Read more
Wings of Genspace
With the Genspace business and other stuff I’m working on picking up steam, it’s getting increasingly difficult to come up with decent enough blog posts these days. I’m still not sure whether this is a good thing or not. I love being busy pursuing my dreams, but writing is about the only thing that’s keeping … Read more
Is it game night yet?
It’s Thursday night. Just one more day to plow through until you reach Friday night with all its movies and drinks. Well, we can’t tell you how to speed up time but we can tell you how to feel like it’s going faster. Play computer games. Now, we are talking about Genspace, and we do … Read more
Alan Kay on OOP
Some update before I move on to the main post: I’m an official team member of the 2010 NYU iGEM team! I’ve learned a ton of biology from Russ, and worked on some cool stuff like visualizing and simulating the Immunoyeast system using Processing language. I’m also working on having a touch-screen installation for the Jamboree, … Read more
8bit tools of science
According to the founder of Playpower.org, more people in India have TVs at home than tap water. And there are $12 computers everywhere that uses the TVs as monitors, like so many of the personal computers of old. Now consider that these hardwares based off older 8bit chip designs and the softwares that run on … Read more
Synthetic Biology on KQED QUEST- and some comments on the diybio aspect
(((I was trying to embed the videos from the KQED site directly in the post, but apparently copy pasting embed code in HTML panel isn’t good enough for wordpress. I’ve linked to them instead. They are quite good. You should really check them out.))) Here are two videos on synthetic biology. The first one is … Read more
Quorum sensing
Just a quick note on early Sunday morning. I’ve been reading up a bit on the topic of quorum sensing, which turned out to be a very interesting phenomenon. I’m not qualified to get into the specifics but it’s basically a cell to cell communications method used by bacteria. The mechanism is based on … Read more
DIYbio NYC meeting: Apr. 15th
Okay, here we are, the fourth meeting of the diybio nyc group. As you can see the meeting was on the April 15th, almost a week ago, so I’m a little late in writing this post. The week had been a little crazy (I’ve been saying this a lot lately), so I really didn’t have … Read more
Today’s diybio nyc meetup
I got through another meeting with the diybio nyc peeps. Mostly it was management related talk with what came to be the founding members of the group, in terms of getting legal status and finding space for the group. The biggest problem for the group at the moment seem to be lack of lab-worthy space. … Read more
