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Goodbye Rita
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Fluorescence microscopy experienced a 'green' revolution when GFP sent a surge of excitement for live imaging through the life scie...
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Nature subscription at impact factor cost
Nature magazine is celebrating his highest impact factor by offering a print and online subscriptio...
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[Cool site] Biology.SE - the first 100 days
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We saw that crowdsourcing pays some cheques to the scientist making his own research lab in the garage . But how to find a relevant researc...
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[Interview] Sentinels for detection of estrogenic compounds
After a PhD in cellular and molecular medicine, Daniel Gorelick continued to study how steroid horm...
metabolic pathways: microarray analysis tools
Three generation approaches are today available for functional pathway analysis. Just brief notes and many links for my (and perhaps your...
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In science, game-driven crowdsourcing makes 18 fold better Because of sequential nature of mRNA translation, proteins begin as strings...
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DIY Research: how to start their own
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Image manipulations: so useless and miserable
I did not check on the real original publications if the alleged image manipulations spotlighted in...
Where are your cells from?
Are your human cells coming from executed prisoners? During the Christmas pause, I had occasion to spoke with one of my elderly aunts tha...