And the Labby goes to ...

The Scientist magazine organises the "Labbies" (multimedia awards). Each year a panel of judges picks some videos and images as finalists for the awards and people can choose the best one in each category.

This year the five finalists are quite different but all of them are impressive. From natural selection to stem cell research for diabetes these videos are a good example of different research projects presented in a very catchy way. 

Truth and Beauty: The unseeable biology

Brain animation.
By Nevit Dilmen.
Source Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes it's difficult to tell you about things that happen inside the cells. And these things are difficult to teach as well. However, one of the ways we have to show you those beautiful things inside the cells is with animations.

These animations are based on accurate scientific data and show us, many times in a very spectacular way, those things that we can't see. Animations are a combination of truth and beauty.

As examples of these animations I want to share with you some videos that I hope you like.

Genetic Engineering as you have never seen it before

Source: Wikimedia Commons

I just came across this BBC documentary by Adam Rutherford through Jenny Winder in Google plus about Genetic Engineering. I do work with genetic engineering techniques myself in the lab but what it was shown in the video made me open my mouth. It´s really unbelievable how far we have gone nowadays in this field and how quickly this keeps evolving.

I won't say anything else... Just judge it by yourself.