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Excuse me while I play the proud parent for a minute. Not to be outdone by their father’s success (that, in case it wasn’t clear, talks about a paper I’ve just had accepted), the Pawns have been up for end … Continue reading →

You’ve probably heard how Jimmy Wales is talking up Wikipedia, the encyclopaedia where any— no, we’ve done that joke already. Wikipedia has introduced a system of peer review, as if this solves anything. The problem is with the word ‘peer’. … Continue reading →

Typical. I’m all excited because my paper came out, and I’m all set up to do not one, but two cutting and incisive experiments, and go into the lab on Saturday to look after the stem cells, and I find … Continue reading →

One of the things that we are learning in the doing of Science is that, fundamentally, all things are interconnected . Nowhere is this more apparent than in the familiar Central Dogma, the formation of protein from DNA through the … Continue reading →

Science is supposed to be pretty. Not a lot of point in doing it, otherwise (for a range of values of ‘pretty’, at least). So I was first pleased when I saw that an editorial Nature Cell Biology talked about … Continue reading →

Because I got married while I was still doing my doctorate, I’ve never really considered finding a job for two people as something unusual. A pain, yes; but just something that we had to work out. Kate’s forté is in … Continue reading →

Coincident with the safety audit , there’s been a bit of a discussion over at the Science Advisory Board about ethidium bromide, ‘safer’ alternatives and other ploys used by unscrupulous marketeers to get you to buy their company’s product. Ethidium … Continue reading →

One of the unforeseen benefits of living in Australia is that on Thursdays I get to read Nature at least 10 hours before my colleagues in Europe and the US (because I’m usually in the office when the RSS feed … Continue reading →

In the space of a week, the results from two manuscript submissions have come back. And there is good news, and actually pretty good news. So we’re a bit chuffed, at the moment. Both manuscripts come out of work done … Continue reading →

Adapted from an email I’ve just sent to the Head: This is beyond ludicrous. If we are each to have a copy of the OHS paperwork , the maths looks like this: Say 6 risk assessments, 6 SOPs. 20 MSDS … Continue reading →