The LCROSS mission is a search for water on the moon. The LCROSS mission is going to do this by sending a rocket crashing into the moon causing a big impact and creating a crater, throwing tons of debris and potentially water ice and vapor above the lunar surface. This impact will release materials from the lunar surface that will be analyzed for the presence of hydrated minerals which would tell researchers if water is there or not — NASA

A team of IBM Researchers is exploring new and innovative ways to quickly read human DNA

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 jointly to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 jointly to
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for the discovery of “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to three scientists who have solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The Nobel Laureates have shown that …

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people laugh, and then make them think.

Chine unearthed another gem in the form of a four winged dinosaur , Anchiornis huxleyi. Its dated to the Late Jurassic period, 151-161 million years ago making it oldest winged species, the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx lithographica, found more than a century ago in Germany. Hence this new discovery of the oldest known bird, provides more hard evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
Chinese scientists discovered five remarkable new feathered dinosaur fossils from two separate areas, named the Tiaojishan and Daohugou formations. Comparison of the Tiaojishan and Daohugou fossils suggests that they …

Remember once i posted a video on High speed sequencing by Helicos and today i came across an wonderful review article ( Thanks to sandwalk blog by larry Moran) on next generation DNA sequencing. This review appeared in Nature biotechnology and written by Jay Shendure and Hanlee Ji. This review gives an nice overview about Sanger sequencing, 454 sequencing, Solexa technology and helicos technology.
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Reference :
Next-generation DNA sequencing
Shendure J, Ji H.
Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Oct;26(10):1135-45.