Around The Blogs
There were some great posts in the science blogosphere this week… here are my favorites!
Just headlines, no data? Janet D. Stemwedel at Adventures in Ethics & Science points out that the journal publication behind the recent headline story that caffeine increases the risk of miscarriage is at best difficult to find, and at worst non-existent.
Sophisticated subtilis sporulation. Elio at Small Things Considered gives a run down of some elegant work on the mechanism of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis, involving some nice fluorescent microscopy work.
Spin-doctored Seminars. PhilipJ at Biocurious gives an entertaining and insightful analysis on the anatomy of the average seminar, pointing out that more often than not grandstanding takes precedence over substance.
Blogosphere goes Biopop-tastic. Seems like Biopop is getting around as several blogs picked up on the BioRad PCR song, which was number three in our Biopop top 10. See comment at Discovering Biology in a Digital World, The Daily Transcript and Nerdy Science Blog.
A Plague of Plagiarism. Johnathan M. Gitlin at Nobel Intent muses on a recent Nature commentary about the extent of plagiarism in scientific publishing.
Starting my Christmas list early. Trevor at Epigenetics News gives us a heads up on a video extolling the virtues of the new Nanodrop spectrophotometer. I want one of those…. Dear Santa….
Coining in on DNA. Hsein-Hsein at Eye on DNA wrote about an EBay auction of a commemorative £2 coin issued in 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix. I didn’t know these had been issued - it would be nice to have one, especially for the starting price of £0.99!
Ribosomal RNA Genes. Larry Moran at Sandwalk gave two excellent tutorials on Ribosomal RNA gene in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. See the articles here and here.
Dissecting the machine. Not a recent article, but an interesting one so I thought this nanotechnologist’s perspective on molecular biology research merited inclusion.
…and finally…
Paris Hilton in Intelligent Opinion Shock! David Ng at The World’s Fair reports that the learned Paris Hilton has outed herself as an Intelligent Design advocate. Amazing… I never thought I’d see “Paris Hilton” and “intelligent” in the same sentence.
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Nick Oswald
Nick is a molecular biologist who grazes in the field of biocatalysis by day and cooks up Bitesize Bio by night.
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