by Nick on November 29, 2007

I just came across a neat device now being offered by BioRad that may interest those of you who do a lot of electroporation of difficult-to-transfect mammalian cells, where tedious optimization of the electroporation protocol (read on...)

by Dan on November 29, 2007

An essay in today's issue of Nature struck a contentious cord at the intersection of modern science and politics: that of the ethical regulation of science. The context of ethics and science was succinctly summed up: When in (read on...)

by Nick on November 28, 2007

In the early 1950's so many new enzymes were being discovered in the burgeoning field of biochemistry that enzyme nomenclature was in danger of getting out of hand. With no guidelines on how to name enzymes, researchers simply (read on...)

by Dan on November 28, 2007

Science is an endlessly fascinating, challenging, and intellectually-satisfying endeavor. So it saddens me any time that I see someone mistakingly make claims about taking science on faith. This isn't the forum for taking on (read on...)

by Nick on November 27, 2007

Last month, Thomas C. Erren and colleagues published an editorial in PLoS Computational Biology entitled 10 simple rules for doing your best research, according to Hamming. The article provides some great philosophical (read on...)

by Dan on November 27, 2007

Here's one of my favorite journal articles from the past year - an elegant study by Natalie Andrew and Robert Insall published in Nature Cell Biology: Chemotaxis in shallow gradients is mediated independently of PtdIns 3-kinase (read on...)

by Dan on November 26, 2007

In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 59 of the 79 cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins are encoded by two genes, stemming from an ancient genome duplication event. Komili et al. (2007) now report that these paralogous genes (read on...)

by Suzanne on November 26, 2007

As a product manager, one of my responsibilities is to exhibit at various scientific conferences to promote and advertise products for genomic DNA extraction. Less than three months into the job, I attended the American College (read on...)

by Dan on November 23, 2007

A few articles from around the blogosphere, relating to the molecular biology of the cell and the conduct of science. Confocal Image of Cochlea Wins Art Prize - Stunning micrography! Microbial Sociology - Detailed post on the (read on...)

by Nick on November 22, 2007

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