Top science stories of 2010
Thanks to Viktor at StrippedScience for letting me borrow his microbe New Year's cartoon!
Happy New Year! I was catching up on my blog reader and came across the NatureNews top science stories of 2010. I was curious how many of these stories would have something to do with microbes... turns out quite a few do. Of the 12 science news-worthy events/discoveries selected, 3 were directly related: the claim of Arsenic-based life story, the new HIV drug Truvada (including viruses with microbes), and the synthetic genome from the Ventner institute.
In the style of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon I…