Just a bit of fun for a Friday… I’ve often thought that some of what we molecular biologists do with staining and things could easily pass for artwork, but I’ve never seen anything like this fantastic agar plate artwork posted on Wikipedia. It shows a San Diego beach scene drawn on an agar plate using an eight color palette of bacterial colonies expressing fluorescent proteins. Read more »

This has been doing the rounds all over the web, so I thought I’d post my 10 favorites.

You know you’ve worked in the lab too long when…

1. You wash your hands before you go to the toilet
2. You tell your family to store the milk “at 4°C” Read more »

I love this great time-lapse video entitled “a day in the lab”. If only minipreps were this fast and easy! Read more »

Just for fun, here my top 15 reasons for being a scientist. Add your own reasons in the comments below if you so wish.

1. Not being stuck behind a desk all day every day
2. Conferences… see the world for free Read more »

Binder have released a fun movie entitled “Germfellas” to promote their latest CO2 incubator, which comes with inbuilt 180°C sterilization capability. The movie is nicely done and is a great piece of marketing. Take a look if you have the time.

I wouldn’t normally expect to include an article on knitting in a molecular biology blog, but Kimberly Chapman’s DNA model for babies is so cool (in a very geeky way) that I thought it deserved a mention. I’d like one of these, but unfortunately, they are not commercially available. Kimberley only provides patterns on her website, and I don’t have the first clue how to knit so I’ll have to be content with the photo. Never mind.

While browsing you tube I came across this really nice animation of DNA replication, transcription and translation complete with imaginative sound effects. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Read more »