September 30, 2007
Category: Retrospective
Yes still in Italy. Looking back at this post, it looks like most of the small biologists (excluding structural biologists) who practiced the molecule-centric approach have been weeded out by the stagnation in NIH funding, but I still beleive that...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:37 AM • 4 Comments •
September 28, 2007
Category: Retrospective
Yes you've guessed it, I'm in Italy. Here is another entry dealing with scientific thinking....
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:43 AM • 3 Comments •
September 26, 2007
Category: Retrospective
Still in Italy. Here's another old entry for you....
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:38 AM • 3 Comments •
September 25, 2007
Category: Retrospective
The Nobels are coming up. Here is last year's prediction (note that I had listed Mello and Fire).Who will win this year? You tell me....
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:24 AM • 20 Comments •
September 23, 2007
Category: Misc
Jenni and I spent the last 3 days in the big city, meeting friends, celebrating weddings and preparing to leave for the mother country. We stayed with our good friend Jan who lives in Morning Side Heights near the Columbia...
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September 21, 2007
Category: Misc
I'm off to NYC and then Italy for a whopping 3 weeks. I'll be visiting my mother's hometown, my father's father's hometown and other sites along the Apennines. I may post little items while I'm gone, but until I'm back...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:23 AM • 4 Comments •
September 20, 2007
Category: Lab Life
One lobbyist's recommendations on how academic publishers should counter the open access movement.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:41 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
If you are in the Boston area, I encourage you to attend. All the details are here.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:11 PM • 1 Comments •
September 19, 2007
Category: Lab Life
From today's email:...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:25 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
RNA is getting a lot of attention, unfortunately all the lit on RNA in the popular press is a little overhyped and not very well understood.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:08 AM • 1 Comments •
September 18, 2007
Category: Science & Society
Over at The Scientist they're asking readers "what are your favorite science blogs?"
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:03 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
A little collection of links based on this theme.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:54 AM • 4 Comments •
September 17, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
These large complexes limit what goes in and out of the nucleus and are made up of a lot of strange parts. We now find out that NPCs contain a small protein normally found in the Dynein motor.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:52 AM • 0 Comments •
September 15, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
One of the most watched cell biology videos of all time. A neutrophil uses chemotaxis to chase a bacterium around a field of red blood cells. Notice how the neutrophil can suddenly change direction. This clip was shot over 50...
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:54 AM • 2 Comments •
September 13, 2007
Category: Lab Life
Why does it take so long for journals to review certain manuscripts?
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 3:31 PM • 8 Comments •
September 12, 2007
Category: Pure Biology
From a recent PLoS Genetics paper.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 7:56 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Science & Society
Encouraging views from various publishers who are speaking out against the anti-OA lobby group.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 5:41 PM • 0 Comments •
September 11, 2007
Category: Science & Society
Energy from seawater? Don't bet on it.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:48 PM • 19 Comments •
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6 years ago today, a Tuesday in fact, we woke up in our Washington Heights apartment. I walked to the kitchen and started to wash the dirty dishes left from the previous night's dinner. Manhattan is shaped like a wedge...
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September 8, 2007
Category: Science & Society
A book on the origins of tissue culture and how it changed our views on life.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:58 AM • 1 Comments •
September 7, 2007
Category: Lab Life
May your experiments smile on you too.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 11:43 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Lab Life
German Nihilist Postdoc: You know what we are?
Me: No, what?
GNP: Leibeigenschaft.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:55 AM • 6 Comments •
September 5, 2007
Category: Misc
It's confirmed. At some point in October I'll be giving a talk at the UPMC on my work.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Pure Biology
A ubiquitin like molecule helps fuse vesicles together.
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Posted by Alex Palazzo at 4:40 PM • 4 Comments •