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Nick Oswald

Nick is a molecular biologist-turned-publisher. After a PhD in Developmental Biology and an eclectic seven years in biotech he is now Editorial Manager of Neuroendocrinology and the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Bitesize Bio. You are welcome to connect with Nick on LinkedIn

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Here are the highlights of what I’ve been reading around the blogs this week:

• Rosie Redfield explained her radical ideas on quorum sensing in bacteria at RRresearch
• At A Blog Around The Clock, Coturnix discussed how the term “gene” has changed since the was coined in 1909.
• In “This is why you chose 20 colonies” Alex Palazzo of the Daily Transcript gave a brief insight into his cloning work, showing that it’s true, you do indeed make your own luck.
• At Discovering Biology in a Digital World Sandra Porter talked about sexual orientation… in nematodes.
• After Dan’s post on Wednesday, there was more discussion on mixing faith and science at Gene expression.
• Scientist, Interrupted carried an article showing that, according to a Harris Poll, Science is considered among the “most prestigious” occupations by the public.
• At Adaptive Complexity, Michael White talked about the implications of the recent achievements in isolating stem cells from non-embryonic sources.
• Alan Cann at Microbiology Bytes gave us the low-down on Poxviruses 
• Bear with the organic chemistry example he quotes if it is not your area, but in an excellent article entitled Science and Uncertainty, Jean-Claude Bradley makes some excellent points about the abbreviation of protocols in publications and dealing with general variability in scientific method.
• …and just since it’s last thing on a Friday, Berci at ScienceRoll posted about a great flash game for us DNA geeks.