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Biology
Stem Cells, Telomeres, and other Biological Fountains of Youth
If you believe certain musical groups, everybody wants to live forever (while ruling the world?). Our fascination with immortality is…
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Biology
Sharper knives for sharper images, or, the ‘Deli slicer’ portion of your biology PhD
I’m doing a bunch of staining experiments at work right now. That means that, hopefully, in the next couple weeks…
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Biology
Write this in DNA
Sometimes it seems like the “Age of Synthetic Biology” is actually the “Age of Writing Great Works of Literature Into…
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Geekery
What you get when you mix “Aerialist” with “Gigantic Nerd”
I go by “mad geneticist” on tumblr, but most of the posts I’ve written up here – and there –…
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Biology
Body Art Science Mingle
Last week the California Academy of Sciences, in conjunction with Gladstone Institutes, hosted a “five-day biosciences festival” called Brilliant!Science. CalAcademy…
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Biology
Visualizing Biomolecules: Fluorescent Microscopy
I’ve dedicated a couple posts to how we generate images of biologically relevant molecules. I’m going to zoom out significantly,…
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Biology
Visualizing Biomolecules II: Electron Microscopy
In my last post I talked a lot about how we use x-ray diffraction patterns to calculate the shape of…
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Biology
Visualizing Biomolecules: X-ray Crystallography
You know you’re a nerd when your tumblr feed lights up with claims like “DNA HELIX PHOTOGRAPHED WITH AN ELECTRON…
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