Richard has previously mentioned my imminent departure from f1000 and it’s come to the day where I pack up my desk, hand back the security pass and read my last free copy of The Scientist. It’s been a great experience being involved in a forward-thinking project like f1000 and getting stuck into the social media…
Lord Lichfield One of the great things about doing science, especially if you’re lucky enough to be a cell or structural biologist, is just how gosh-darned pretty it can be. Sometimes, crouched over a microscope or synchrotron hutch late at night (or very early in the morning, with the latter), the sheer prettiness of what…
Just a reminder that I’ve extended the deadline for our twitter #scifubar competition until Monday. Post your most embarrassing scientific error or egregious lab-based manipulation to Twitter with the #scifubar hashtag. If you’re too shy to ‘fess up, pretend it was your labmate… The winner gets a bag of F1000 swag, including the much-coveted laser-stylus-pen-torch…
You turn me right round As an undergraduate, I remember being fascinated by the family of rotary motors that is the proton-translocating ATPase. This is the protein complex, resembling something from the imagination of E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith rather than anything merely biological, that either pumps protons from one side of a membrane to another,…
You turn me right round As an undergraduate, I remember being fascinated by the family of rotary motors that is the proton-translocating ATPase. This is the protein complex, resembling something from the imagination of E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith rather than anything merely biological, that either pumps protons from one side of a membrane to another,…
The media faces constant criticism from medical specialists and advocacy groups whenever it trumpets the latest new wonder drug to cure any form of cancer. Many spurious claims have over the years been splashed across the UK Daily Mail’s front page, prompting backlash from organisations such as the National Health Service, Cancer Research UK and…
I got a very strong sense of deja vu when leafing through PLoS Biol recently. I was sure I had seen something very similar to Jeffrey Shaman’s paper Absolute Humidity and the Seasonal Onset of Influenza in the Continental United States before. A quick check on PubMed proved me right. I found the following, published…
As anyone who has worked in a lab will tell you, labcoats are a complete pain in the Gilson until the day they save your Armani suit from being dosed with TEMED, E. coli or radioactivity (and in extreme cases, all three). Invariably made from cheap polycotton with fasteners that don’t and sleeves that dangle…
As anyone who has worked in a lab will tell you, labcoats are a complete pain in the Gilson until the day they save your Armani suit from being dosed with TEMED, E. coli or radioactivity (and in extreme cases, all three). Invariably made from cheap polycotton with fasteners that don’t and sleeves that dangle…
It is well known that the average physician in training will be expected to work more than a few 24 hour shifts during their training. It is also well known that sleep deprivation affects performance (how much? Now that’s the real question, but I digress). I read a paper, evaluated by Faculty of 1000 member…
