by Nick on May 29, 2009

This time in "Around the Blogs": An extra surprise in your salad, understanding swine flu and some of the most obvious research projects ever. Extra protein with your greens. A.J. Cann at Microbiology Bytes describes some recent (read on...)

by Dan on April 3, 2009

Reflecting on My First Experience with Research Genomicron - Here's a post directed towards the undergraduate students out there contemplating a career in molecular biology or some related field. They key is getting some (read on...)

by Dan on March 20, 2009

Four web posts from around the interwebs jumped out at me in the last couple of weeks. First, on a science webinar: Science webinar series : Protein Tagging Technologies in Cell Imaging and Analysis Hoxful Monsters - This post (read on...)

by Dan on March 6, 2009

The biggest news recently, with the global economic crisis and the US Stimulus Bill being prominent in the news, there's been some interesting discussion on what to do (and what not to do) with the much-needed funding: NIH (read on...)

by Dan on February 20, 2009

A Chaos of Delight A very nice essay on GFP, Darwin & bioluminescence at a blog where literary delights meet biology. Letting Scientists of the Leash Guest NY Times columnist and bioengineer Stephen Quake calls for a (read on...)

by Dan on February 6, 2009

First, a handy little reminder on group meetings from Biocurious. The suggestions are so simple, and yet so many people in group meetings do not think about what they want to say ahead of time, or they drag on and on. And those (read on...)

by Dan on January 30, 2009

Three selected articles for your blog-reading pleasure: The Stimulus - How much is marked for science funding? Let's not mess things up this time! The last major increase to the NIH caused major problems years later. Money was (read on...)

by Dan on January 23, 2009

I'm a frequent lurker on a wide variety of life science blogs, and one of those blogs that I've recently started to really appreciate is What's New in Life Science Research at Scienceblogs. As a blog it has promise, although I'm (read on...)

by Dan on January 16, 2009

Welcome back from the Winter Holidays, it's time to start the regular 'Around the Blogs' segment again. I've taken notice of a handful of interesting articles around the blogs on human genetics, so I'll focus on that this (read on...)

by Dan on December 12, 2008

Books About DNA: DNA: Promise and Peril In one of a series of posts on books on DNA, Hsien-Hsien discusses a book about the genetic revolution and its implications for our lives. The Problem with Publication-Driven Science Mike (read on...)