Around the Blogs

It’s Friday again, and time to recap some recent and relevant posts around the rest of the blogs:

10 tips toward better grant writing - Grant writing is immensely important for any academic researcher, and here are a few tips that might make this journey a bit less onerous.

Why would advisors encourage students to publish? - Possible explanations of graduate student-advisor dynamics, pertaining to the demand to publish for all concerned.

Do students of evolutionary biology appreciate the importance of random processes? - An interesting comment of major misconceptions of biological concepts among undergrads.

Do you know the true identity of your cell lines? - One of the problems with cell and molecular biology is knowing what you’re working with; is your cell line what you think it is? It’s a topic of concern that has been coming up at the NIH.

The New England Journal of Medicine Gives Direct-to-Consumer Genome Scans Thumbs Down - There are a few things that one might want to consider before getting your genome scanned.

And some recommended blog posts on peer-reviewed research:

Clocks and Migratory Orientation in Monarch Butterflies

Hyperactive p53 and premature aging

induced Pluripotent Stem cells from a 69 year old human: the hidden story?

Competitive Release and Antibiotic Resistance

Signs of function in non-coding RNAs in mouse brain