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YouTube for test tubes

Lights, camera, pipette... online journal aims to put science in pictures.

Cemile Guldal pays attention to details. Her tattoo of a DNA double-helix, for example, doesn't wrap quite all the way around her right arm because doing so would have distorted the major and minor grooves of the helix. And that simply wouldn't do.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on November 23, 2006 05:25 PM |

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YouTube for test tubes sounds good really, but is problematic a little bit. In a way the YouTube analogy is true, the biologists can now upload their protocol videos on the site, and can watch it freely, and there is the exciting DIY possibility, but on the other hand JoVE is not YouTube at all: there is a strict submission process with clear policies to go through, which excludes junk, and you cannot embed the videos freely. The first aim of JoVE is to be useful for people in the lab, which is a scientific purpose. Entertainment is just after that.

Posted by: Attila Csordas | November 24, 2006 10:59 AM

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