Dan Rhoads
Dan is a postdoc working at the University of Cyprus in developmental biology. He has a BSc in molecular biology and a PhD pharmacology and biochemistry.
Articles by Dan Rhoads:
Book Review: On Growth and Form
Unlike most naturalists and biologists before and since, who were only satisfied if they could understand a particular form by the configuration of its immediate precedents, D’Arcy Thompson was quite satisfied with a mathematical description or a physical analogy. He truly viewed the variety of biological forms that he looked at with the eyes of…
Nobel Prizes in Molecular Biology
There are a lot of places to read about the history of molecular biology, but one theme that generally seems to emerge is that discoveries are dependent upon the experimental technology. Take this list of Nobel prizes for molecular biology for instance.
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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 experience in a lab doing original science research, which is a must if you are going to go on to do…
How Science Is Changing What We Eat
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 in an era when the capacity for cultivating the primary grain and vegetable crops of the world is being stretched to its…
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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 is more of an FYI that should be passed on… “If you have any questions related…