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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’s my take on the most interesting blog posts of the last week:

Science, Evolution and Intelligent design. Larry Moran takes a skeptical look at the Union of Concerned Scientist’s position on conflict between science and religion.

Unintelligent Design. Bayblab highlights a comical piece of molecular biology pseudoscience. Well, it would be comical if there weren’t some people who actually believe this guy.

Biology is harder than physics, argues Rosie Redfield on her teaching blog and…

…no it’s not!…  PhilipJ at Biocurious makes the counter argument.

Mad yeast disease. Merry gives us the low-down on prion-like proteins in fungi

Where is my public? Jason Delbourne at The World’s Fair cautions against thinking of the “the public” as a homogenous entity in the context of public perception of science.

Affinity for alcohol. Eric highlights a sobering paper showing that ethanol is a specific ligand for brain proteins.

Next in sequence. A nice introduction to next generation sequencing at Adaptive Complexity.

Learn your ABC’s. The Reporter gene blog takes us through the ABC of reporter genes.

…and finally…

Cancer genes are evil… says Gwyneth Paltrow in Eye on DNA’s quote of the week. You’ve got to laugh.