by Dan on August 26, 2008

Last October, Nobel laureate and biochemist Arthur Kornberg passed away, and I've finally gotten around to reading his book For the Love of Enzymes. While there's a lot in the book to talk about, for this post I'm focusing on (read on...)

by Dan on August 22, 2008

It's Friday, so let's take a glance Around the Blogs and see what's happening. Science and Society Banned Performance Enhancing Drug Classes Basic Concepts: Crop Genetic Engineering Publishing Science Reed Elsevier Caught (read on...)

by Dan on August 20, 2008

Last Thursday's post on the animal rights firebombing in Santa Cruz earned me a couple outraged comments, so I suppose I did something right. I'm sure they don't realize it, but they're comments reflect what I was saying. That (read on...)

by Rob on August 18, 2008

At the end of the day, all you want to know from a restriction screen is whether your insert is in the vector. But while the standard “chop out a fragment” approach favored by most researchers provides good information about (read on...)

by Dan on August 18, 2008

Two recent articles that I came across clearly illustrate ways in which cellular asymmetry is both easily established by basic factors, and provide the basis for processes like cellular polarity and aging. One cannot claim with (read on...)

by Nick on August 15, 2008

In this week's round-up of bio-related blogs: The smell of the sea breeze, corporal punishment in the lab and a surprising side-dish that comes with your (read on...)

by Dan on August 14, 2008

It would seem that animal rights' terrorists are at it again, this time with a spate of firebombings in SouthernNorthern California. One might be sympathetic to the child-like adoration of animals, without a doubt. You might (read on...)

by Nick on August 13, 2008

We've talked before about ways to use technology to help you with the vital job of keeping up with the literature (see here and here). Now here is another one to add to the list. This approach was first flagged up by Eric (read on...)

by Dan on August 12, 2008

I finally got around to purchasing and reading a copy of Carl Zimmer's Microcosm: E.coli and the New Science of Life, and I have to chastise myself for not reading it sooner. In Microcosm, Zimmer has eloquently condensed a (read on...)

by Rob on August 11, 2008

Restriction digests are simple. But underestimate them at your peril. Restriction digests and screens are the cornerstone of many procedures in molecular biology so getting them right, and knowing how to tell if they are going (read on...)