by Dan on July 31, 2008

A bit of a rant today: Nobel laureate Paul Nurse has an article in last week's issue of Nature that strikes me as having a bunch of buzzwords but a misguided message. In Life, Logic, and Information, Nurse becomes the latest in (read on...)

by Nick on July 30, 2008

If you use your calculator a lot, especially for complicated equations, and would like a more visual interface then xThink's Online Calculator could be right up your street. Instead of linearly typing your equation into the (read on...)

by Liam on July 29, 2008

Over the years there have been a multitude of methods - ranging from the easy to the downright painful - developed for the preparation of plasmid DNA, but I suspect most of us have only used one , or maybe two, of these in our (read on...)

by Dan on July 28, 2008

My all-time favorite biology writer would, without a doubt, be Lewis Thomas. Twenty-odd years before anyone had conceived of blogging, much less blogging about science, Lewis Thomas was publishing a handful of books that were on (read on...)

by Nick on July 25, 2008

It's time to look around those blogs again. On offer this week: The Tree of Science, a perfect Western at the first attempt and how to kill someone using an IPod (read on...)

by Dan on July 24, 2008

Tuesday, I posted on Bt Corn as an example of a "good" genetically modified (GM) crop whose benefits vastly outweigh its risks, risks which are akin to the development of antibiotic resistance in the health sector. Here, I (read on...)

by Liam on July 23, 2008

You are working late in the lab and you need to do a transformation, but sod it, you don’t have any antibiotic plates on hand. So you go on the hunt to see if there are any secret stashes anywhere in the lab (you can find (read on...)

by Dan on July 22, 2008

Last December, I posted a running question - What's with Europe's Opposition to GMOs? - and moved on to other topics. This week, I'd like to contrast "good" versus "bad" genetically modified crops. Beginning with the former, a (read on...)

by Nick on July 21, 2008

So, you see an ad for your dream job and, of course, decide to apply. But how do you make sure you get it? Your chances of getting any given job are mainly influenced by two things; your technical abilities and how you come (read on...)

by Dan on July 18, 2008

Here's a list of blog posts worth passing along from the past couple of weeks, in the order I bookmarked (read on...)