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November 30, 2006
EMBL Online Symposium: No travel costs! Attend for free!
Category: Announcements
Attend an exciting conference in Europe, virtually free!
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:47 PM • 2 Comments •
November 29, 2006
Antibiotics au naturale?
Category: Microbiology
What's the difference between a synthetic drug and an antibiotic? Sometimes there's no difference at all. Let's take a look at chloramphenicol and couple of pencillins....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 1 Comments •
November 28, 2006
Jumping to Conclusions about the NSTA
Category: Science culture
One of my favorite books, "The Phantom Tollbooth," by Norton Juster, has a wonderful description of the penalties for making decisions without carefully evaluating the facts. Whenever the characters in the book arrive at a decision too quickly, they end up, literally, "jumping to Conclusions," an island far off the shore. The penalty for quick blog posts isn't so high....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:58 PM • 13 Comments •
A primer on antibiotic resistance, part I: what are antibiotics?
Category: Microbiology
Antibiotics are molecules of biological warfare. Produced by bacteria and some fungi, in response to extracellular signals, antibiotics represent a diverse group of compounds that inhibit bacterial growth at different points and different stages of the life cycle. We will get around to antibiotic resistance, but in these few words, I think I already wrote quite a bit. Admittedly, some...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:21 AM • 3 Comments •
November 27, 2006
Addressing the biology knowledge gap
Category: Science education
How do non-biologists learn about biology?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 9 Comments •
November 22, 2006
Bored on Thanksgiving?
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Here's an experiment you can do at home.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:17 PM • 0 Comments •
39.5 million people have HIV
Category: HIV/AIDS
Random thoughts on AIDS and HIV
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:54 PM • 2 Comments •
November 14, 2006
Parasites and Purity
Category: Microbiology
New evidence links ancient latrines to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:29 PM • 1 Comments •
November 13, 2006
A Sunday with the Tardigrades
Category: Science education
Cute little tardigrades are great research subjects.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:46 AM • 2 Comments •
November 8, 2006
Molecular biology in the age of kits
Category: Biotechnology
Do more kits mean more science or more science that's bad?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:53 PM • 14 Comments •
November 7, 2006
Visualize this!
Category: Science Art
The photogenic 2006 winners from the Nikon small world contest.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Neurons in the movies
Category: web resources
See what happens when retinal ganglion cells get together.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
November 6, 2006
Middle School Essay Contest 2006-2007
Category: Science education
Write about biomedical breakthroughs and your life and win $$
Posted by Sandra Porter at 3:39 PM • 0 Comments •
Let's watch that again in slow motion, shall we?
Category: Science education
We need lab movies of people doing things wrong.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:04 AM • 3 Comments •
November 4, 2006
Mysterious lab protocols: Film at 11
Category: Biotechnology
You've probably heard about enterprising researchers attaching cameras to dolphins, dogs, and other animals, in order to learn how things look from the critter-point of view. Now, some enterprising lab rats have added a new twist to this technique....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:22 PM • 4 Comments •
November 2, 2006
Dim Sum, anyone?
Category: Humor
Some experiments are doomed from the start
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments •
November 1, 2006
Things that go wrong in the lab
Category: Biotechnology
Like sex education in a religious household, lab technique must sometimes be learned from your friends.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 7 Comments •
