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Alex Palazzo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Toronto.
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August 31, 2006
Category: Misc
A couple of days ago I wrote a rant about how painful it was to deal with the Massachusetts and the federal government. In contrast, civil servants in the Quebec and Canadian governments have often gone out of their way...
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August 30, 2006
Category: Science & Society
I have mixed feelings about Dennett. I really liked his book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, but in public appearances he tends to give off a patronizing air. But earlier today I heard him on WBUR (NPR in Boston) and he did...
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August 29, 2006
Category: Science & Society
A couple of comments. I totally agree with Richard Dawkins, but I feel that in many instances he confronts the interviewee too abrasively, in an unproductive way. On the other hand I enjoyed Ian McEwan's two minutes and Dawkins'...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:06 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pure Biology
I've often brainstormed with one structural biologist in the lab (he does both crystallography and NMR) on how to solve all of x-ray crystallography's problems by forcing proteins to rearrange themselves in regular arrays. But we haven't come up with anything good strategy yet. BK points to a new theoretical technique that may help.
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August 28, 2006
Category: Pure Biology
(This is an intro to a n upcoming entry.) When I was an undergrad, working in a lab at McGill, my then boss Morag Park would joke that Phosphoinositides were at the center of the universe. What did she mean...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:46 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science & Society
Yesterday's video clip was taken from "The Root of all Evil". So without further ado, here's the whole show (I'll post part II tomorrow). [HT: Simon]...
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August 27, 2006
Category: Science & Society
(via Migrations)...
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Category: Pure Biology
This is the newest from the Blobel lab. Note to all "they've discovered everything" types: this finding shows how much we know about how cells operate. Background: As I've described before the nucleus and the cytoplasm are two cellular compartments...
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August 25, 2006
Category: Lab Life
OK I live 30min away from the Longwood Medical Center by foot. Most days I walk to and from work but on rainy/blizzard days I take the M2 Shuttle, a free service provided by Harvard to ship people between the...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Map that Campus
This week it's an easy one. Click here for a blowup. Hint: The debate stems from work done here. What the hell am I talking about? You tell me. (P.S. Ignore the arrow.)...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:14 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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