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 not too concerned with what they think, but they’re comments reflect what I was saying.

Here’s how to soup up your restriction screens to get the maximum possible information about your experiment. It’ll save you time and effort in the long run.

Two recent articles provide the theoretical and experimental proof that polarity and asymmetry are reducible to something as simple as diffusion – even in a complex cellular process such as aging.

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 to go with your sushi.

It would seem that animal rights’ extremists are at it again, this time with a spate of firebombings in Southern California. One might be sympathetic, if one were superbly naive.

The simple solutions are always the best. Here is a simple but powerful way to combine Pubmed, RSS and iGoogle to keep up with the literature.

The theme running throughout is that E.coli is a microcosm for understanding all of life. Zimmer reinforces this theme with repeated mention of a Jacques Monod quote, “What is true for E.coli is true for the elephant.

Restriction digests are the cornerstone of many techniques. Here are some great tips on setting up and troubleshooting them.

We’ve reached the end of another week here on Bitesize Bio, so let’s close with the usual survey of what’s happening Around the Blogs. I’m not linking to too many posts (just five), and am instead trying to pick quality over quantity. I hope you find them interesting.

Here’s something that I’m sure all our readers will find interesting, if they haven’t heard it already: there’s a web search engine out now for specifically designed for biologists.