Archive
2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
May 2008
- How Cancer Begins
- Around the Blogs
- Don’t Overdo The Multi-tasking
- Would you Sterilise Growth Media With A Microwave?
- Defining Life Itself
- Around the Blogs
- Enduring Grant Writing Edits
April 2008
- Re-cycling Electroporation Cuvettes
- Biotechniques is 25
- Pimp Your Plasmid Growth Medium
- Around the Blogs
- Structured Digital Abstracts - Easier Literature Searching But Not Democratic
- What is your Life Changing Book?
- How to shut off background lac promoter expression in LB
- Perfectionism: Are you on the downward spiral?
- Around the Blogs
- Evolution: 24 Myths and Misconceptions At New Scientist
- Climb The Career Ladder Faster With These Cover Letter Tips
- Recycle Those DNA Extraction Columns
- Control Your Lab Computers From Home
- Around the Blogs
- 5 Products That Could Make Your Lab Life Easier
- 5 More Tips for DNA Gel Extraction
- Faster, Cooler DNA gels
- Antibiotics as a Carbon Source
- Around the Blogs
- More on the Promise of Biomedical Breakthroughs
- Management Skills in Science
- Quick and Dirty Screening for Cloned Inserts
March 2008
- How To Become A World Expert In Your Field
- Around the Blogs
- Lazy Cell Lysis
- Emerging Biomedical Technologies and their Promise
- Church Scaremongering on Stem Cells
- Comments on Communicating Expertise and Knowledge
- Around the Blogs
- Genome Structure and Modularity
- 3 More DNA ligation Tips
- On Animal Rights Activism
- Top 10: iGoogle Gadgets for Molecular and Cell Biologists
- Around the Blogs
- Wellcome Image Awards 2008
- Howard Hughes Plugs Funding Gap for Early Career Scientists
- Late Night Lab Entertainment
- Easier DNA Sequence Manipulation
- Around The Blogs
- Google Reader for Academics
- Why Have Journal Club?
- 18 Ways to Improve your PubMed searches
- Ethidium Bromide: The Alternatives
February 2008
- Around the Blogs
- Top 5 Books from Experimental Biology
- 10 Unmissable Bio Flick and Pic Galleries
- Turn Away from the (UV) Light
- Stop and Enjoy the Seminars
- Around The Blogs
- What Comes After Grad School
- Zebrafish: Making Development Transparent
- Ligation Independent Cloning Primer Design
- Around the Blogs
- Sending Plasmids: How to Avoid Jail Time and Shredded Envelopes
- The Best Polymerases of 2008
- Critical Learning Habits
- GenePaint: Visualizing Developmental Expression
- The Basics: How Phenol Extraction Works
- Around The Blogs
- Wrapping up a Week of Just FAK
- FAK and Phosphatidyl Inositol in Cell Polarity
- Could You Learn Better?
- Dissecting Molecular Interactions Between FAK and Paxillin
- FAK and Lamellipodia
- Defending A Giant
- FAK, Pyk2, and p190RhoGEF in Cell Motility
- Love in Mendel’s Garden
- Around the Blogs
- 17 Ways to Stop Pipetting Errors Ruining Your Experiments
January 2008
- A New Unnatural Base-Pair
- Metabolism as Biogenesis
- Geometries of Cells
- Quickly Boost Your Writing Skills
- Warning: Dihydrogen Monoxide is Worse Than Ethidium Bromide
- Worms: Models of Development
- Around The Blogs
- How Should We Customize Life?
- Xenopus as a Model for Early Development
- The Essential PCR Troubleshooting Checklist
- Dictyostelium as a Model
- Model Organisms in Biomedical Research
- Fast restriction digests?
- Preps in the Zyppy: How I Changed my DNA Miniprep, Gel Extraction and Concentrator Kits
- Around the Blogs
- BioPop: 10 Songs That Should Be On Every Biologist’s iPod
- In Which I Agree with the Corporations
- Ligation Independent Cloning Protocol
- Deserving of More Media Attention
- Closer to the Genetic Roots of Autism
- No more white elephants! - consider this before buying a real-time PCR cycler
- Seeing Bacterial Bones with Cryo-EM Tomography
- Work Smarter With The Molecular Biologist’s Toolbar
- Who Else Thinks Biology Teaching Methods are Wrong?
- Curing Alzheimer’s through TNF?
- Around the Blogs
- PlasMa DNA: Free, cross-platform plasmid mapping and analysis software
- The Math of Free Will
- Meiosis and Mitosis Tutorial
- Keeping Your Eyes On The Prize
- Get Your Clone 90% Of The Time with Ligation Independent Cloning
- New Journal Ranking Tool
- Free Mind Mapping Software
- Around the Blogs
- Kinase Structures and Autoinhibition
- Alternative Careers For Scientists
- 5 Ways to Get More Results This Year
- Relating to Historical Contingency in Biology
December 2007
- Happy Holidays…
- The Big Story of 2007: Cellular Alchemy
- The Challenge of the Two-Body Problem
- Get Inside A Molecular Biologist’s Imagination
- BioChemWeb: Virtual Library for the Molecular Biologist
- Keeping up on the journals
- Around the blogs
- Protein Sociology: Collective Interaction Behaviors
- What’s with Europe’s Opposition to GMOs?
- Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2007
- Political Issues and the Science Lobby
- Thinking Microbes
- Battling Disease – The Real-Life Hydra?
- A Classification System For Scientists
- Three Entertaining Molecular Biology Movies
- The Easier Way to Write a PhD Thesis
- Around the Blogs
- There’s No Need To Be Paranoid About RNA Purification
- Myosin Isoforms: Duplication and Divergence
- Personal Genomes and Modern Eugenics
- An Easy Lysis / Homogenization Method for Any Sample
- At last - an easy backup solution
- The Basics: How Ethanol Precipitation of DNA and RNA Works
- 8 Approaches to Random Mutagenesis
- miRNAs Get Flipped
- 20 Ways to Increase your Productivity
- Entosis: Cellular Canabalism
- Salesman Stories
November 2007
- The Limits of Horizontal Gene Transfer
- Around the Blogs
- Electroporation on a (96 well) Plate
- Science, Ethics and Controversies
- Enzyme Commission (EC) Numbers
- Please, don’t take Bitesize Bio “on Faith”
- The Biased Choices of Cells
- Ribosomal Paralogs not Redundant Afterall
- 10 Simple Rules For Doing Your Best Research
- Newborn Screening. Saving Lives the Molecular Way
- Get Involved With Bitesize Bio
- The Best of: Tech Tips
- Around the Blogs
- Microtubules at the Membrane in Apoptosis
- Free, Publication Quality Plasmid Annotation
- Across the Comparative Oncogenomic Landscape
- Aptamer-DNA Chimeras
- Gene Genie #20
- Around the Blogs
- Genes Linking Aging and Cancer
- Online Data and Project Management
- Population Genetics Mechanisms on a Genomic Scale
- Rookie Researcher Disasters
- What to Look for in a Good Mentor
- Choosing a Post Doc Position
- Around the Blogs
- Re-Think PCR and Win an IPhone
- 10 Tips For Better DNA Gel Extraction Results
- Science Writing: Selling Your Research
- The Basics: How Alkaline Lysis Works
- Gene Regulatory Networks during Development
- 10 Reasons NOT to be a Scientist
- A Missing Post-translational Modification
- Error Bars in Biology
- Spare a Thought for Tech Support Reps
- History of Cell Biology
- 10 Ways to Work RNase Free
- Fluorescent Neurons Over the Brainbow
- Ubiquitination Isn’t Just for Recycling Anymore
- Pin-pointing DNA Ligation Problems
- Around the Blogs
October 2007
- Cells - This Side Up
- “Loss of Function”
- Arthur Kornberg, Biochemist
- Firefox Add-ons for Molecular and Cell Biologists
- Time to Think
- 5 Ways to Clean Up A DNA Sample
- IRESs and Negative Data
- Around the Blogs
- Open Access to Science
- The Invention of PCR
- History of Molecular Biology
- 10 Links: Cell and Molecular Biology Podcasts
- Histone Methylation Determines Cell Fate
- Bitesize Bio Welcomes Dan Rhoads
- Modeling Tertiary Structure
- Why Do Enzymes Have Optimal Temperatures?
- 10 Tips on Writing a Research Poster
- Heterologous Gene Expression Problems?
- GFP Beach Scene
- Plasmid archiving at Addgene
- An Attractive Genomic DNA Isolation Kit
- Antibiotics Used in Molecular Biology
- The Basics: How Does DNA Ligation Work?
- How to: Keep your data organized
September 2007
- 10 Do’s and Don’ts for PhD Students
- You Know You’ve Been In the Lab Too Long When…
- Ethidium Bromide: A Reality Check
- Protein Expression with a Cherry on Top
- The World’s Fastest Miniprep?
- Competent E.coli: To buy or not to buy?
- Choosing a Competent E.coli Strain
- 15 Reasons to Be A Scientist
- E.coli Electroporation vs Chemical Transformation
- One Tube PCR Cloning Method
- Binder CO2 incubator - movie fun
- 10 Tips for Better Presentations
- What’s The Problem With Ampicillin Selection?
- The Dark Side of Gene Synthesis
- 10 links: Free PC Software for Molecular Biologists
- 10 links: Free Mac Software for Molecular Biologists
- Easier Gene Cloning With Positive Selection Vectors
- How to: Get Better Plasmid midiprep Yields
- Custom Gene Synthesis: A PCR alternative.
- Your own DNA sequence? Maybe soon.
- Add notes to your PDF files with PDF-Skim
- Baby’s first DNA model
- PCR Problems? Try an Additive
- 5 DNA Ligation Tips
August 2007
- Codon Usage Analysis
- Low cost DNA gel documentation
- My favorite PCR polymerase
- DNA replication, transcription and translation in action
- Better Pubmed Journal Searches
- Plasmid Cut & Paste with Quikchange
- Zyppy Plasmid Miniprep Kit
- RNA Polymerase II Assayed in Living Cells
- Quick reference: Determining DNA concentration & Purity
- 5 Tips on Vector Preparation for Gene Cloning
