About Jenny
By day: cell biologist at UCL. By night: novelist, broadcaster, science writer, sci-lit-art pundit, chair of Science is Vital and Editor of LabLit.com. I blog about my life in science, not the facts and figures.
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Monthly Archives: January 2008
In which I witness the dawn of a new advertising era
You’ve probably all seen it by now: Scientists for Better PCR, an advertisement for BioRad’s 1000-series thermal cycler. Fabricated as a music video and available on YouTube, the song is a deft send-up of the 1985 classic “We Are The … Continue reading
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In which I consider surrendering the printed page
I’ve just had an epiphany of sorts. A lab colleague of mine wanted to read the most recent draft of my second novel, still in manuscript form, but quite fancied trying out a shiny Sony PRS-505 electronic reading device that … Continue reading
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