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• Early work by David B. Searls on the application of linguistics to DNA sequence analysis and the origins of compound grammars.

Searls, D. B. The linguistics of DNA. Am. Scient. 80: 579-591 (1992).

Searls, D. B. A prospectus for a molecular logic. UniSys internal report, Paoli PA (undated). --Saira 19th April 2006

• New pathogenic bacterium pinpointed

Granulobacter bethesdensis, named after the disease (chronic granulomatous disease) and location (Bethesda, Maryland) in which it was found.

Nature News, April 14, 2006 --Jennyn 10:25, 18 April 2006 (EDT)

• IBM Creates Ring Oscillator on a Single Nanotube

Ilya 15:50, 29 March 2006 (EST) via Jasonk

• Spore by Maxis - link to google video

The first synthetic biology game? --Ilya 16:47, 16 March 2006 (EST)

This is going to be the best, most addicting game ever! --Jennyn 16:58, 16 March 2006 (EST)

• 'DNA' nebula found in Milky Way

Cosmic nebulae usually look like blobs in space, but astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope reported on Wednesday they have found a nebula twisted like the double helix of DNA. --Ilya 16:29, 16 March 2006 (EST)

• Craig Venter's Synthetic Genomics plans to "program cells" to produce hydrogen