Biology
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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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Activities
The Perot Museum: An Oasis of Science
With all of the controversy surrounding Texas schools teaching Creationism (including Young Earth Creationism which teaches that the Earth is…
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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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Crafting
The Biological Plausibility of (Puppet) Dragons
My fellow labbers would have you believe that Dragons are biologically implausible, but I’m here to say that (Puppet)…
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Biology
The Art of Science: Expressing Gene Expression
I might have had the past month of my life swallowed by writing and editing a paper analyzing a massive…
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Biology
The Biological (Im)Plausibility of Dragons
So I made an off-handed remark about the biological plausibility of dragons in one of my Game of Thrones posts,…
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Biology
Here’s my paper, accept it maybe?
I spent last week gearing up for and going to the Stanford Genetics department retreat. It’s an almost universal thing…
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