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The Daily Transcript: Eye Candy
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Friday, February 03, 2006. It's Friday . here's a cell stained against mRNA from an artificial gene. Posted by apalazzo at 6:44 PM. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. View my complete profile. My old blog at Tripod. Rambling Thoughts of the Prof Bil The Man. Bartholomew Cubbins on RNA. Genetics and Health Blog. One Degree of Separation Blogs. Tales of a Tall Medstudent. The Daily Transcript Q&As.
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The Daily Transcript: Science in Action
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Tuesday, February 07, 2006. Looks like she's mouth pipetting, or drinking (we're not sure) some yummy tissue culture media. I hope that this newspaper clipping won't spark riots. Posted by apalazzo at 3:13 PM. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. View my complete profile. My old blog at Tripod. Rambling Thoughts of the Prof Bil The Man. Bartholomew Cubbins on RNA. Genetics and Health Blog. One Degree of Separation Blogs. Tales of a Tall Medstudent.
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The Daily Transcript: Eye Candy
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Tuesday, February 28, 2006. Well writing a paper makes you feel beaten-up. But now that it's done I feel better. (Hope the reviewers like it). PS Guess what's I've captured in this image. Posted by apalazzo at 9:27 AM. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. View my complete profile. My old blog at Tripod. Rambling Thoughts of the Prof Bil The Man. Bartholomew Cubbins on RNA. Genetics and Health Blog. One Degree of Separation Blogs.
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The Daily Transcript: Immunofluorescence
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Thursday, February 09, 2006. OK here's a post geared mostly to cell biologists. My big pet peeve about reading the scientific literature is . colored fluorescent images. Why do people insist on pseudo-coloring their images? So why is color bad for data presentation? Your eye is better at detecting various shades of grey than shades of any hue. Or to rephrase, it's easier to detect details in a black and white image. You're thinking, well it...
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The Daily Transcript: Article on Peer Review
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Sunday, February 05, 2006. Article on Peer Review. I read an interesting article in The Scientist on how the NIH wants to evaluate the peer-review process for NIH grant applications. Some facts about NIH grants:. Average age a researcher gets his/her first R01 grant: 42 (as I've mentioned in a recent post). Time between grant submission and grant acceptance: average of 9 months. Percent of R01 grants that go to new investigators: 6%.
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The Daily Transcript: Interview with Bil
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Friday, February 10, 2006. It's Friday night, I'm in the lab writing my paper when who pops up in an IM chat screen? He's starting up a new lab in California. We chatted a bit . Mad Scientist: man I should do a blog "interview" with you. Bil the Man: Right. MS: (just another excuse not to work on the paper) ok here goes. BtM: Dude, I have sht to do. MS: so do I. MS: What's the best thing about becoming a PI? BtM: We'll be starting in about ...
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The Daily Transcript: A Slice of Life Scarves
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Saturday, February 18, 2006. A Slice of Life Scarves. As a microscopist you are often are stunned by the beauty of what's on your microscope slide. I remember as a grad student showing this technician (a former doctor from China) a slide where cells were stained by immunofluorescence against microtubules. After peering into the microscope he turned to me and said, "there must be a God". Yes quite beautiful stuff. For those power meetings!
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The Daily Transcript: What I've been doing for the past couple of days
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Friday, December 16, 2005. What I've been doing for the past couple of days. Microinjecting and snapping photos . Here are some weird things that I've been seeing (or as they say IMAGING) in the nucleus. I wont explain much . so view it as nano-art. The answer is totally unknown. Again how or why these dots/granules/bodies are formed - totally unknown. If anyone ever tells you that we understand biology or cells - they obviously haven't...
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The Daily Transcript: Further Differentiation within the ER
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Sunday, February 12, 2006. Further Differentiation within the ER. OK this week I've been obsessed with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This organelle is comprised of a continuous network of membranous tubes (and sheets) that extends to the cell periphery. In addition ER sheets also envelopes the nucleus - forming a bilayered nuclear envelope with an outer nuclear membrane and inner nuclear membrane. To read more check out the paper. Ref: Gi...
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The Daily Transcript: Differentiation within organelles
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Friday, January 27, 2006. Refs: Worman, H and Gundersen, G. Here come the SUNs: a nucleocytoskeletal missing link. Trends Cell Biol. 2006 (E-Published). Update . some trivia! So it looks like Nesprins are some of the biggest proteins in the cell. Nesprins are members of the plakin family, all of which are huge. Here is a list of some of the biggest proteins encoded in the human genome (# of amino acids in parenthacies). My old blog at Tripod.