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Last week we wrote about the new WormToolbox automated imaging software, used to capture single images of the C. elegans roundworm. See the news story .

While it’s one thing to describe the technology, we thought we’d share several images from real ӳ����ý experiments using the WormToolbox program.

Even when everything is in working order, the team in the ӳ����ý’s Genome Sequencing Platform is never completely satisfied. Someone is always tinkering, inventing, or thinking about a way to strengthen one of the links in the chain of events that leads to sequenced DNA.

Look around the ӳ����ý's public spaces, and you'll find that the ӳ����ý is “Unfolding.” That’s the title of an exhibition featuring the work that artist-in-residence has created during her two-year collaboration with scientists here. Tonight, Ranganathan, known as Gupi, will give a talk at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston about that collaboration.

If there were just one book of biology, it would be rewritten constantly with the sometimes dramatic, more often incremental advances in understanding that come with the nature of science. Constant revision can come with insight – think Darwin – or with technology – witness faster, cheaper sequencing machines – or with both.