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Should I hire a postdoc or a technician? – Thoughts about managing an academic research lab.
Animal Rights Extremists kill at least a dozen mink – “….by releasing them from a mink farm. This is what happens when you set animals free without regard to the consequences.”
Used Postdocs – “Please dispose thoughtfully of your used postdocs.”
The Ends Justify the DNA – Informative post on Next Generation Sequencing and its applications.
10 Things about GE crops to scratch from your worry list (Sorry – link corrected) – As John Tierney points out, many consumers worry about things that are not actually a threat to human health or to the environment.
Useful RNAs? – “If more than 90% of the genome is ‘junk’ then why do cells make so much RNA from it?”
Evolution as the Recycler of the Cell’s Tools – Part 2 of a 3-part series on issues raised by the book The Plausibility of Life.
How to get scientists to adopt web 2.0 technologies.
About the Author
Dan Rhoads
Dan is a postdoc working at the University of Cyprus in developmental biology. He has a BSc in molecular biology and a PhD pharmacology and biochemistry.
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