Folding: it’s detestable and boring, as any Gap employee can tell you. But it’s also a totally fun thing you can do in a video game! And today it’s particularly exciting because players of the online game Foldit have redesigned a protein, and their work is published in the science journal Nature Biotechnology. More »
This beach is awash in bacteria colonies that express eight different colours through fluorescent protein modification. And yes, that canvas is a petri dish. [Andrew Hires via MAKE]
