Prof. Drew Endy, Isadora Deese & The MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group have just published in Nature a comic introduction to synthetic biology (requires Flash). There’s a text version here with no graphics.
Sadly the full article, Foundations for engineering biology, requires subscription or payment (science is still captive at Nature).
But a subscription is not required to enjoy the story of how this comic came to be. From that story we learned we need to order a copy of Larry Gonick’s The Cartoon Guide to Genetics.
Thanks for this. Can I share a video that examines how biology has evolved over the years and that proposes that the traditional bench scientist will end up spending more time on computational analysis than on the bench itself. May be of interest.
http://www.americanbiotechnologist.com/blog/changing-role-bench-scientist/