by Nick on September 24, 2009

No-one would disagree with the goals of open access publishing: free access to scientific literature for all. If you work in an institution or small company that can't afford to pay journal subscription fees you'll know the (read on...)

by Anisha on June 30, 2009

Getting hooked on a non-fiction book isn't something that happens often with me. Non-fiction plods and trudges. However, 'The Emperor Of Scent' by Chandler Burr is breathtakingly unique. It gallops. It has all the elements of a (read on...)

by Dan on March 25, 2009

From about the time our ancestors traded the nomadic lifestyle for more urban settings, agriculture has been important. It's no coincidence either --- selective breeding and domestication of crops made civilization possible. And (read on...)

by Dan on March 11, 2009

In research relating to molecular biology, it is common for animal models of disease to be used, especially in projects directed towards making biomedical discoveries and breakthroughs. So I find it very important to occasionally (read on...)

by Dan on February 11, 2009

I doubt that anyone reading Bitesize Bio has never heard of Richard Dawkins. He's always been controversial in one way or another, ever since the release of arguably his most popular book, The Selfish Gene (Amazon US/UK). But (read on...)

by Dan on February 9, 2009

With it almost being Darwin Day, it seems only right to review a book on perhaps the best popularizer of evolutionary biology in the 20th Century, Stephen Jay Gould. As a paleontologist and historian of science, he taught at (read on...)

by Dan on January 22, 2009

We all know that surviving in the publish-or-perish world of academia requires that we write a lot. For myself, I view blog-writing as a form of writing practice --- I used to really suck at it. Okay, actually I still get stuck (read on...)

by greg on January 21, 2009

If you've ever wondered how molecular biology came to prominence in biomedical research, why so many famous molecular biologists of the past century were trained as physicists, or when bacteriophages were first used as cloning (read on...)

by Dan on January 9, 2009

Since last year's discovery of a way to "reprogram" skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), there may or may not be a political way out of this controversy. But there are legal reasons why a quick end to the (read on...)

by Paul on January 8, 2009

For our "fresh new" version of the website, I'll kick off with a series of articles on describing the contents of my professional "toolbox". So, let's open 'er up and see what we get. In this installment, I'll skim the top tray (read on...)