Human cell becomes living laser! →

“Lasers started from physics and are viewed as engineering devices,” says Seok-Hyun Yun, an optical physicist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who created the ‘living laser’ with his colleague Malte Gather. “This is the first time that we have used biological materials to build a laser and generate light from something that is living.” The finding is reported today in Nature Photonics.

Gene Designer 2 demo. Click-and-drag, icon vs sequence view etc

This is a preview and tutorial of the new Gene Designer software.  Its so cool to be able to see DNA being constructed!

This software is free!  Check it out!

The software website