What’s on the web? (1 November 2008): Nylon-eating bacteria November 1, 2008

• Scientific Blogging: Now the site entered the web 2.0 era with a nice layout and a lot of useful features.

• First-ever ultrahigh definition “4K” digital camera recording of gyn surgery: Steven Palter at docinthemachine.com came up with something unique again.

• What lessons can we learn from teaching with a wiki? (Discovering Biology in a Digital World): Sandra Porter tells us her experience with using wikis for education.

• PharmaSurveyor is live now. It “creates a personalized risk assessment for you which shows not only drug-drug interactions but the much more common and often dangerous adverse drug side effects”.

• Nylon-eating bacteria (Wikipedia):

Nylon-eating bacteria are a strain of Flavobacterium that is capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon 6 manufacture. This strain of Flavobacterium, Sp. K172, became popularly known as nylon-eating bacteria, and the enzymes used to digest the man made molecules became collectively known as nylonase.