Tyler DeWitt, Bill Nye, and BioBeans

Have you ever wondered why anyone goes into science? Does it seem boring, dry, uninteresting, uncool, unlikeable and not-your-style? Or maybe, you sometimes secretly wish that you were "smart enough" to be a science geek but you just don't get it? 

If so, we're here to tell you that science isn't the problem. Science is anything but boring, uninteresting and uncool. You're not the problem either. You are definitely smart enough. What needs fixing is the middle man. The teachers. So what can you do to be a better science learner or teacher? Read on ...

Knome and Personalized Medicine

On February 2nd, the New York Times ran an article featuring an up-and-coming company, Knome. Knome provides a combined hardware-software platform for interpreting human genetic information. Soooooo... what do they provide? What does this mean for personalized medicine in the 21st century?