A little bit of midweek light relief, from biomatushiq (click to enlarge):
What Bob Dylan sang 47 years ago is still true – especially for the scientific endeavor. We can see many signs of changes occurring on the US side of the pond:
When you’ve got your chromatids together at cytokinesis, how do you separate them again? Here’s a lovely little evaluation from University of Michigan’s Yukiko Yamashita, talking about the protein cohesin, which is apparently involved in the proper segregation, and consequent release, of both chromosomes and centrosomes.
First up, congratulations to Blake Stacey for winning the Name that drug competition. Blake, let me have a mailing address and I’ll put the swag in the post. For this week’s dose of Friday fun, what’s the cleverest or funniest article title you’ve come across? Ian has suggested this 2011 article from Lester Lau of…
The ability to pick up on the non-verbal emotional cues a person gives off is crucial in everyday life; knowing from the look on your boss’s face that today is just not the day to ask for that pay rise could save you an unwanted argument. This is a task that can be tricky at…
F1000 Member of the moment has to be Paul Riley. Not only has he recently published a stunning piece of research, in which a ‘Smart trick’ was used to kick-start adult heart epicardial cells into an embryonic programme such that they were able to produce fully functional cardiomyocytes, but he’s also been awarded a new…
Yesterday on Facebook I posted a picture of … something, that had you all guessing: It’s actually a stereo-pair of mitochondria from human Leydig cells–the testosterone-producing cells of the testes–viewed using high resolution scanning electron microscopy. Evaluating the paper, F1000 Member Rosemarie Heyn at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” points out that there are…
Remember the news story about alien life that turned out not to be about that at all (here, and links therein)? Well, in a triumph for open science advocates everywhere, Rosie Redfield has started trying to replicate the GFAJ-1 growth experiments, and is reporting progress on her own blog. (It’s the reporting progress thing that…
We’re pleased to have Tom Robertson, at University of Washington Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics, on the Faculty of 1000. In July he joined Roger Marthan as Section Head in Respiratory Physiology. We called him up last week to find out a little more about his life in research and interests. You can…
Last week I promised to name a winner of our Name that drug! competition. Well, I’m sorry. It’s too difficult. I’m going to let you decide instead. Tell me who you think should win this lovely bag of F1000-flavoured swag, including the much-coveted Naturally Selected sweatshirt. The shortlist is Blake Stacey: Groupselectitol, for when you…
