What’s on the web? (2 September 2007) September 2, 2007

• Medicine 2.0 Medical Web Geekery Blog Carnival (DavidRothman.net): the Medicine 2.0 carnival is up again. Check out David’s post if you’re interested in web 2.0 and medicine.

• Science in Second Life: CSIRO and Nature (Science Library Pad): Participate in tomorrow’s Second Life seminar (2 AM Second Life Time) as Dr Peter Clifton discusses anti-ageing and the prospect of human life extension.

• The Future of Eukaryotic Genome Sequencing Is Here (Evolgen): “Until de novo whole genome projects drop to thousands of dollars (rather than millions), these EST projects are the way to go.”

• Anatomy of a bad science story (Genomicron): a great guide from TR Gregory written with masterful sarcasm.

• Five Scientists Who Made the Modern World (Curious Cat): Actually 2 of them were from Hungary.

• Why we can still trust Wikipedia (theage.com): “Wikipedia is not perfect, but nor is it fatally flawed as others have condemned it to be. Rather, it is an incredibly useful and amazing website (rated by Alexa in the top 10 websites visited for both Australia and the World) with over a million entries in the English version alone.”

• The Center for Internet & Digital Medicine: “advances the pairing of a new generation of Internet & related digital technologies with health sciences and intelligent informatics systems”. They also have a blog.

• Test For Identifying Chromosome Abnormalities Associated With 85 Developmental Disorders In Children (Medical News Today): “ClariSure(TM) microarray-based comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) test enables physicians to use results obtained from a single blood test to diagnose patients with mental retardation and dozens of other disorders, including Down, cri du chat, DiGeorge and Williams syndromes.”

• Science Blogging Conference/ Open Lab 2007 (Neurophilosophy): even if I could make it (January 19th, 2008), that is the middle of my exam period…