It just came to my attention that Leslie Orgel is dead. He died on October 27th 2007 as an 80 year old scientist who has certainly left a great impression, was recognized as a great mind and a generous human being. Leslie Orgel was also known for his “second ruleâ€, which states that “evolution is cleverer […]
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In memoriam: Leslie Orgel
Published by March 25th, 2008 in ancient technology and biopolymers. 0 CommentsCreating 3D sugar structures
Published by January 18th, 2008 in biopolymers, hipness, link and state of the art. 0 Commentskudos to Amanda: the people at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have come up with something pretty sweet—a 3-D sugar printer. Really cool. Makes me want to go out and build one myself:
Alles [auf] Zucker!
Published by November 24th, 2007 in biopolymers, polymer classes, preparative, science link and technologies. 0 CommentsThe title off a german 2004 comedy about a disgrunteld jewish journalist actually lines out german chemist Peter Seebergers work on glycane chemistry at ETH Zürich. While the movie is bristling with witty fast-paced dialogue, Seeberger took a lesson from Merrifield and managed to build the worlds first automated polyglycane synthesizer bringing a faster pace […]
(Almost) Polymer of the month (May 2007): DNA with a twist
Published by May 12th, 2007 in biopolymers, future technology and polymer of the month. 2 CommentsThe sceptical chymist posted a short interview with Nadrian Seeman today, which reminded me of my DNA-richer days, long ago they seem. If you remember my last comment on DNA-Polymer conjugates you know that DNA can do all sorts of nice things for polymer chemists as well as material scientists. But there is more than […]
