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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: The Picture of a Happy Scientist!
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Monday, February 27, 2006. The Picture of a Happy Scientist! So my blog's been suffering from neglect. (I'm writing up a paper.). Hopefully it'll get in some journal, then I'll be a happy scientist! Speaking of happy scientist, check this photo out (to the right). And why is he happy? He not only just published a paper but is on front page. Of Harvard's website. Check out the Harvard article. What a golden moment! Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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The Daily Transcript: Mimivirus
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Friday, February 24, 2006. While reading, Keat's Telescope. I read an interesting entry on Mimivirus. I've been reading a bit on this weird creature. Last year its genome was sequenced ( see the Science article. To read more, check out the March edition of Discover Magazine. Bernard La Scola et al., A Giant Virus in Amoebae. Science (2003) 299:2033. Posted by apalazzo at 9:04 AM. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. View my complete profile.
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The Daily Transcript: Scientists Taking Holidays?
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Monday, February 20, 2006. Yes it's President's Day. But does that stop the lab from filling up? If you are concerned that Holidays may slow down the pace of Science, fear not, Scientists have lost the ability to take time off! Or perhaps to identify major holidays/weekends). This fact was seared into my brain last night. I had to stop by the lab to poly-adenylate some RNA I needed for an experiment. Not a desperate postdoc.
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The Daily Transcript: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation
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Daily news and views from a postdoctoral fellow in Cell Biology. Thursday, February 16, 2006. Just read an article in the last issue of JCB, where the authors used a nifty new technique to investigate when and where certain RNA binding factors associate together. In the past researchers used a related technique called FRET. If the two proteins came close enough, when excited, fluorophore A can donate (or transfer) it's energy to fluorophore B. Stimulate A, measure B. Here is image 1 from the paper descri...
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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 ...