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What Have We Here? Behold, a screenshot of a tiny, tiny part of... 19 Sep 2012 | 03:35 pm
What Have We Here? Behold, a screenshot of a tiny, tiny part of the nominations list for Open Lab 2013. If you look closely, you may notice one particular blog name (or perhaps several, if you’re tun...
Skepticism and Science As many of you who read science news will... 7 Sep 2012 | 11:16 pm
Skepticism and Science As many of you who read science news will know, the ENCODE data set is currently lighting up the world of molecular biology. For the first notable time since the Human Genome P...
Magnifying Human Disease As our ability to peer into the very,... 6 Sep 2012 | 03:54 pm
Magnifying Human Disease As our ability to peer into the very, very small increases, we’ve had the opportunity to see the normally invisible pathogens that have plagued humankind for centuries. Some ...
A scanning electron micrograph image of methicillin-resistant... 4 Sep 2012 | 11:47 pm
A scanning electron micrograph image of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ingestion by a neutrophil. Bacteria pictured in yellow; neutrophil in purple. Image Credit: National Institu...
Harnessing Viruses Viruses are skillful mutants, changing their... 4 Sep 2012 | 08:31 pm
Harnessing Viruses Viruses are skillful mutants, changing their structures or outer proteins to evade the shifting natural defences of their targets. That’s why you have to get a flu shot every year,...
“I’m Talkin’ Bout The Super Bad Lab Grad,... 2 Sep 2012 | 05:14 pm
“I’m Talkin’ Bout The Super Bad Lab Grad, Yeah!” A humorous take on the life of a Ph.D. student in a biotechnology lab. As a university student on a lab course, some of the situations are already al...
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) image of influenza A... 2 Sep 2012 | 04:42 pm
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) image of influenza A virus particles. The most virulent of the three influenza types, the Influenza A virus particle consists of a core of RNA surrounded by...
Facing The Future Induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, are... 2 Sep 2012 | 02:01 am
Facing The Future Induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs, are futuristic, astounding, and could someday save your life. iPSCs are artificially derived from non-pluripotent cells - usually normal ad...
Evolution By Natural Selection: Building My Own Genetic... 1 Sep 2012 | 01:35 am
Evolution By Natural Selection: Building My Own Genetic Algorithm I was posed a variety of very interesting questions on my blog this morning, one of which referenced skepticism at the idea that high...
There are also some scientists who are now questioning natural selection because of the complexities of some organisms and their functional anatomy. S... 31 Aug 2012 | 02:36 pm
The easy answer is perhaps. First, which scientist(s)? Things like this are often easier to talk about in detail. Second, there are definitely things that Darwin missed - DNA hadn’t been discovered y...
