by Dan on July 8, 2008

Last week's issue of Science has a book review that might appeal to any Bitesize Bio reader: First Adventures in Science. The book in question is Falling for Science, a collection of essays by grad students (current and former) (read on...)

by Dan on June 2, 2008

As a general rule of thumb, it is recommended to be familiar with the history of one's scientific field, and not merely the contemporary trends of thought. That's generally why I liked The Birth of the Cell so much when I read (read on...)

by Dan on May 12, 2008

Every major field has its leading thinkers, and the biology of cancer is no different. What makes their impact heard better is when one of those leaders writes a book about it. Given my interest in molecular biology of cancer, (read on...)

by Dan on May 5, 2008

What is this thing called 'Life?' One popular game in the relevant area of philosophy is to provide robust counter examples, which reveal failures in operational definitions of life. Failed attempts include physiological, (read on...)

by Dan on May 1, 2008

Staying in science - getting funding and getting peer reviewed - is tough. That's one of my main gripes with creationist simpletons who imply that scientists are uncritical of their peers, and that criticism is directed solely (read on...)

by Nick on April 24, 2008

FEBS Letters is this month carrying out an interesting experiment that could make literature searching easier for both human and computers. The experiment centres on Structured Digital Abstracts (SDA). SDA are extensions of the (read on...)

by Nick on April 23, 2008

Leading scientists in a variety of fields gave their recommendations on life changing books at New Scientist yesterday. This makes pretty interesting reading - and certainly throws up some ideas for adding to your (read on...)

by Dan on March 20, 2008

A minireview recently in Genomics caught my eye with the title Coexpression, coregulation, and cofunctionality of neighboring genes in eukaryotic genomes that sounded just like a passage that I recalled from Richard Dawkins' The (read on...)

by Dan on February 27, 2008

I just got done reading Ernst Mayr's The Growth of Biological Thought, which is on the history and philosophy of biology, from Aristotle to ~1980 (written in 1982). Of particular interest to me was the section on the Modern (read on...)

by Dan on February 8, 2008

Just Science week has been fun, reading four recent journal articles on focal adhesion kinase (FAK). It has helped me refresh myself on FAK as I got back to writing fellowship applications - although it had the added effect of (read on...)