Read this stem cell paper!
Category: Pure Biology
Soon it will be clear that this paper from last summer will be the basis of a future Nobel Prize.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 6:59 PM • 24 Comments •
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Alex Palazzo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Toronto.
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May 31, 2007
May 30, 2007
Here today, gone tomorrow
Category: Lab Life
Rumour has it that last week a junior faculty here at Harvard Medical School showed up to his lab and with no prior warning announced that he was leaving academic science. The next day he was gone. All of his...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:15 PM • 6 Comments •
'cuz it's my b'day
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Some Tom Waits:...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:47 AM • 6 Comments •
Pinker on Scientific Literacy
Category: Science & Society
This past weekend in a review of Natalie Angier's new book Steven Pinker wrote something I'd like to share with you (below the fold):...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:27 AM • 5 Comments •
May 28, 2007
Second Call for Mendel's Garden #15
Category: Misc
Have a great entry on genetics, genes, evolution, cell biology or any other relevant topic? The 15th edition of Mendel's Garden is now requesting entries. You have until June 2nd to send 'em in. Just email me or submit them...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:59 AM • 0 Comments •
May 26, 2007
Saturday Morning Video - Cordyceps & Ants
Category: Science & Society
Here is an amazing clip from BBC's Planet Earth demonstrating the life cycle of a member of the Cordyceps family of parasitic fungi.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:36 AM • 6 Comments •
May 25, 2007
Green Fluorescent Protein - A Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz Videocast
Category: Pure Biology
Hear a seminar from one of the pioneers of GFP technology and a leader in the study of cellular organelles.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:29 AM • 6 Comments •
May 24, 2007
A Little Note on Complexity in Humans
Category: Pure Biology
This is a cleaned up version of a comment I left on Larry Moran's blog....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:44 PM • 4 Comments •
May 23, 2007
What happens when you try to do too many things ...
Category: Lab Life
After picking colonies, preparing DNA samples from them, digesting a small aliquot of the plasmid prep with the appropriate restriction enzymes and preparing an agarose gel ... you end up loading your minipreps instead of your restriction digests. Damn....
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:55 AM • 12 Comments •
Stanley Miller (1930-2007)
Category: Science & Society
Stanley Miller, of the famed Urey-Miller experiment, died Sunday (NYTimes Obit). Here's an entry from over a year ago that was catalyzed by a conversation with a former member of the Miller lab:...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:13 AM • 1 Comments •
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