Today's Freshest Bites
Top 10 Innovations In Life Science
Networking with LinkedIn and LabRoots
You may have seen some of the different websites around for networking. I’m not talking about Facebook or Myspace, which are for social networking. Facebook and Myspace are great for keeping up with friends and sharing more personal details about your non-work (read on...)
DIY Electrocompetent E. coli
If you buy competent E.coli regularly, you'll know that they are pretty expensive. So the cost of screwing up a cloning or transformation experiment is pretty high in terms of money, as well as your time and sanity! But you don't need this extra worry because despite (read on...)
Science as Progress, and More on the Philosophy of Science
Following up on my recent post about The Nature of Scientific Observation, I left two-thirds of Chalmers' book What is This Thing Called Science untouched, including discussions on Bayes' theorem and the New Experimentalism. I left off right before Popper's (read on...)
Why You Shouldn’t Worry about Getting Results
Everyone is worried about getting results, aren't they? Results are what you need for success in science - they are essential for bringing the funding in. But focusing on results per se is not a good way to work because, as a scientist, you can't "get" results. You (read on...)
Tech Tips & Tutorials
Fast-track your Ampicillin Plasmid...
Most of us use pretty standard transformation protocols for E.coli. Yours probably goes something like this:
- Thaw the competent
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- 5 Laboratory Sterilisation Methods
- Sharpen Up Your Protein Gels
- How SDS-PAGE works
- 5 ways to Damage DNA
Non-Tech Advice & Hacks
Around the Blogs
This week's highlights from Around the Blogs include shakes in the lab, confused science journalists and brain tissue from stem
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- 7 Ingredients for a Successful Job...
- Are you growing in your career?
- Powerpoint: Lose the bullets
- Project Planning Made Easy
Software & Tools
5 Bio-Related Apps for your Iphone/Ipod Touch
If you're one of the proud owners of an Ipod touch or an Iphone then there some great apps available for academics that makes life a
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News, Comments and Fun
Around the Blogs
This week's highlights from Around the Blogs include shakes in the lab, confused science journalists and brain tissue from stem
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- A Grad Student, a Postdoc, and a Professor...
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- Gates Foundation Innovations on Funding...
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