Ken NealsonNow, I think people are starting to realize this ability of bacteria to interact with the environment in an electrical way. Philip Channing/USC College Trained as a microbiologist, Ken Nealson pursues many interdisciplinary endeavors. Full Article at ScienceNews.org

A few weeks ago, Pauline C. Ng, Sarah S. Murray, Samuel Levy and J. Craig Venter published a quite an interesting piece in the October 8, 2009 issue of Nature. Full Article at ScienceRoll

Originally published November 17, 2009 at midnight, updated October 28, 2009 at 3:56 p.m. It may be that TEDMED founder Richard Saul Wurman is the Brett Favre of emcees, or perhaps he’s like Al Pacino in Godfather III, who proclaims in exasperation,... Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune

WHAT: A day-long symposium will be held at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Thursday, November 12, to mark the American Chemical Society's designation of the deciphering of the genetic code as a National Historic Chemical Landmark. Full Article at EurekAlert

Here are some of the highlights. Craig Venter said he has spent the last twenty years digitizing biology. Now, the genomics pioneer is doing something with all of that data. Full Article at Wired

The human genome project was initiated in 1990 and carried out by many scientific institutions worldwide. Full Article at Associated Content