Archive for January, 2009

Obama Will Boost Biotech

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Rosanne Ott, portfolio manager for the four star Alger Health Sciences Fund, says health care stocks will benefit during President Obama’s first 100 days in office, especially generic drug-makers Teva and Mylan.

Obama healthcare team gives greenlight to Second Life volunteers!

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Barack Obama’s team is using new technology to organize online through their websites and Facebook. The goal of replacing years of secrecy with accountability and citizen engagement could be helped using virtual worlds such as Second Life. Now the healthcare transition team sanctioned an experiment; Draxtor Despres recently participated in a community discussion on healthcare and looked at the potential.

Gregor Mendel: From the garden to personal genome

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Video biography of Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), the Moravian monk who became the father of modern genetics through his study of pea plants.

PCR

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Video information about PCR and how it works

DNA

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Basic infomation about deoxynucleic acid and its structure.