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My Second Scientific Paper: Matrix Protease Activity in Tumor Cell Invasion

Category: Life of Nick

The second paper from my undergraduate work at Texas A&M University was recently published in Molecular Cancer. The abstract can be found here, and the pdf of the full paper here. Molecular Cancer is an open access journal, so a...

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My First Scientific Paper: The Stabilization of Blood Vessels by Protease Inhibitors

Category: Life of Nick

My first appearance in the peer-reviewed scientific literature provides an opportunity to learn a little bit about blood vessel development.

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I'm Official! (According to Oxford University, at least)

Category: Life of Nick

After enduring what was surely the longest transfer viva in the history of man (two and a half hours), I am now an official Oxford D.Phil. student.

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Sixth Annual CCPN Meeting in Ambleside, UK

Category: conferences

On the weekend of July 28th-30th, about 150 NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) scientists from the UK and Europe (and a few from the US) gathered in Ambleside for the Sixth Annual Collaborative Computing Project for NMR (CCPN) Meeting. The topic...

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Stem Cell Drama

Category: stem cells

As the Senate votes today on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, this post from the archives describes how the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research has negatively impacted some researchers. In light of these...

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Ask a ScienceBlogger: Finding the Time to Blog

Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger

When I first started blogging in January, I had only recently started by Ph.D. in biochemistry, and it seemed like I was going to have quite a bit of free time on my hands. Now, fast-forward ahead five months, and things have changed quite a bit. I'm constantly in the lab on nights and weekends, generally working ten to twelve hours a day. So, where does the blogging fit into everything? Most of the time, it's a nightly routine.

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