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Synthetic Life

Publication of the Month

“Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome” is the title of my current publication of the month. In the recently released paper, the transplantaion of a digitised genome sequence into a bacteria, resulting in the creation of mycoides carrying only this artificial DNA, is described.
As usual the reference can be found on my webpage.

As I missed to put the May issue online … here’s that as well:
“Regression of advanced rat and human gliomas by local or systemic treatment with oncolytic parvovirus H-1 in rat models” reports on rat models testing a virus, harmless to healthy human cells but efficient in killing certain tumor cells.
And again the reference can be found on my webpage.

Enjoy reading!

Release Candidate 1

Humboldt Universität

Finally, after some confusion and extra trouble in the last weeks RC1 of my Ph.D. thesis is ready! And after handing it over to my professor, it was me, for the first time since quite some time, who wished him a “nice” weekend instead of the other way around. Most likely he’s gonna get back at me big time next week … dammit they just always have the whip hand …

W-elcome at the LHC

CERN

ATLAS just issues the latest release of its e-news, officially announcing the first W boson candidate events in the LHC … which of course reminds me of my nice little master thesis on the W mass measurement at ATLAS.

Below are illustrations of the two candidates: one W decaying into an electron (left) and one into a muon (right), of course both accompanied by the according neutrino, represented by missing energy (ETmiss) in the event.