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Tuesday, August 5, 2003
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Head over to the Scientist: 'A more immediate question for many life scientists is whether they need to hire a bioinformatician. Unless a lab is heavily invested in problems that require intensive use of bioinformatics, the database builders say the answer is, probably not yet. For now, Birney suggests looking for "a geeky graduate student who is up to the job," or three or four labs can get together to share a scientist who has bioinformatics expertise. That person will need to learn Perl, Java, or Python (programming languages that are easier to use than C++) when setting up a lab database or linking lab data to a large database for internal use.' [nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog]
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Blood-powered "human batteries": 'Researchers at Panasonic's Nanotechnology Research Laboratory in Japan are developing a way to draw power from blood glucose -- mimicking the way the body produces energy from food. The result could be a device capable of producing electricity from blood, effectively turning bodies into "human batteries". The estimated power output per person? Around 100 watts, or enough to turn on an average lightbulb.' [Boing Boing Blog]
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