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My review is out! You can find the abstract here — the DOI isn’t currently playing ball, so I can’t give you that. If you want to read more, let me know.

Just for a treat, we have a guest post for you today. A friend of mine in the medical communications business has been thinking about the whole Open Access debate, and has this to say on the murky world of … Continue reading →

Progress is not always beneficial. Back in my school days, in chemistry classes we used to pipette various liquids by mouth, and think nothing of it. Mouth-pipetting is great; if you’re reasonably competent you just grab a pipette, suck, hold … Continue reading →

This is Science. You try. You push, you fight, you struggle. You take tiny, baby steps, and all the time you feel like you’re running to stand still. Everyone else seems to be successful, and your plugging away only draws … Continue reading →

A day or two ago I wrote about an experiment I did last week, that wasn’t spectacularly ground-breaking but was a great deal of fun (all right, so maybe I don’t get out as much as I should). It set … Continue reading →

Hello troops. I’m still breathing, in case anyone was wondering. Just a little drained right now, even though I have (too much!) material. Will check in . . .

Propter Doc is tickled pink to find that she is INTJ. Strangely, so is her partner. I say ‘strangely’ because INTJs do not usually interact well with each other, unless, say, they’re battling for world domination. The INTJ personality type … Continue reading →

Lots of advice for students on giving seminars here . Worthwhile comments thread too.

Looking for pictures of certain cell types on Google this afternoon (aside: we have no whole cell biology texts in the lab. It’s all molecular!) I came across a spectacular image of a big, angry macrophage . Astrographics turns out … Continue reading →

I’m seeing this a lot lately. My cells are turning into neurons: This is a COS-1 cell, transfected with protein-de-jour. It has two nuclei and looks for all the world like a neuron or astrocyte. The little guy in the … Continue reading →