Nature's Podcast

urban@bettong.net (Urban Hafner) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:55:43 +0000

It might not be news to everyone, but sometimes I’m slow at taking up new things ;) There’s now Nature’s Podcast a Podcast from the science magazine Nature. They talk about interesting papers in the latest editions of the magazine and a bit about the News in science.

The quality is acceptable, though sometimes the telephone interviews aren’t all that great. But that’s not so much of a problem I guess as there’s also a transcript of every podcast.

Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA

urban@bettong.net (Urban Hafner) — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:56:00 +0000

A while ago I found a link to a Science article on the sequencing of part of the mammoth genome on Stephen Rudd’s blog . The article itself is quite technical and therefore not the most interesting read ever, but it’s interesting to know how far you can get with sequencing the genome of an extinct species. After all they managed to sequence 3,000,000bp.

Also, you get to read the words metagenomics and paleogenomics. Which might either make you run away screaming or inspire you to create new ones (anyone for meta-paleo-metabolomics? Submission of better (i.e. longer and less comprehensible) ones now open)). ;-)

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Nature's Podcast

Large-Scale Sequencing of Mammoth DNA