BioConference Live is fast becoming a permanent fixture on the Bitesize Bio office calendar. And this year is no exception. This two day, all-online event brings speakers on a huge variety of topics right to your desktop and is a great way to catch up with the latest and greatest in the life sciences without [...]
Our new webinar series has something for every biologist – take a look.
As usual, the Nikon International Small World Competition has produced another breathtaking gallery of photomicrographs. Here are some of my favorites, but you have to visit the galleries to see all of the winners, honorable mentions, and images of distinction: If you like these and are looking to spruce up the lab, Nikon is also [...]
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers, has posted a piece on his website that he wrote for The New Yorker called “The Treatment”. In this article he follows the trials and tribulations of Synta Pharmaceuticals as they take one of their potential cancer drugs, elesclomol, from discovery through phase three clinical trials. Along the way [...]
Well, after much anticipation, we finally got the Bitesize Bio seminars off the ground with a rip-roaring presentation from SYBR Green I and Lightcycler inventor, Carl Wittwer. Carl’s talk took us from the early days of rapid cycle PCR to the development of the Lightcycler through to the diversification of real time PCR into different [...]
Back in November 2009, we told you about a ground-breaking new concept from the people at BioconferenceLive – a whole three day conference, complete with lobby, exhibitor booths and great presentations, held entirely online. Suzanne and I were “there” (in a virtual sense), attending some of the talks and manning the Bitesize Bio booth, and [...]
We have been working furiously for the past 6 months to bring you a new, improved and dramatically upgraded Bitesize Bio. And now we are now ready to share. So what’s in the new version? The first thing you’ll notice is the facelift. But the new logo and colors are just the start. The site [...]
Before we get our brains fully back into gear after the festive season and embark on what we hope will be a momentous year for Bitesize Bio (watch this space, we’ve got some cool stuff in store), we thought this would be a good time to look back at the best articles we published in [...]
How would you like to participate in a free, online Bioconference? Watch and participate in live presentations from the biggest names in the life science industry and the thought leaders of the research community? And do it all from the comfort of your own computer? Well Bioconference Live allows you to do just that on [...]
Any dedicated consumer of historical fiction or costume-epic movies knows that maggots applied to festering wounds by a folk healer will save the protagonist when all seems lost. Why we don’t use maggots in Western medicine? Well, some of us do.
