I am a life-sciences explorer. I surf nutrient-to-gene trails making reporter gene assays. Here, I blog about things happening around my lab bench and I give some free science magazine subscriptions.

Creativity exercise

Because of luciferase, aequorin, fluorescent proteins and their thousand derivative reporter genes, we are used to consider the light as the...

Murphy's law in manuscript publication

Do you recognize the Murphy's law in the publish or perish pipeline? There are three symptoms you should be aware: 1) your original dra...