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OK so I need a little help.
I am a final year PhD student studying the molecular biology of mumpsvirus. As part of my final written thesis I would like to i...
11 hours ago from Rule of 6ix
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*Mature specimen of *Rhapydionina deserta*, from Loeblich & Tappan (1964).*
Calcareous foraminiferans have been featured on this site before: planktic
flo...
14 hours ago from Catalogue of Organisms
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Most if not all of the readers of this blog know their basic floral parts.
Generally there's a perianth in two whorls, sepals and petals, and then
there's...
1 day ago from The Phytophactor
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Why is the outer nose shaped as it is? Why don't humans just have two holes
in the face, rather than this protuberance that we care so much to have the
rig...
1 day ago from Pleiotropy
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Earlier this week, I blogged about our new VerbCorner project. At the end,
I promised that there would be more info forthcoming about why we are doing
this...
1 day ago from Games with Words
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*Belongs within:* Sordariales.
*Chaetosphaeria inaequalis*, photographed by Lucien Rommelaars.
The Chaetosphaeriaceae are a group of saprobic fungi growin...
1 day ago from Variety of Life
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It’s time to stop scoffing at the synesthetes: linking music to colors is
totally normal. It’s not really about the notes, though. Researchers say
the ...
2 days ago from inkfish
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So about a month ago, I wrote about how amazing it was that penicillin
resistance was discovered as early as 1940, two years before it went on
general sale...
2 days ago from Memoirs of a Defective Brain
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Is it possible for two people to disagree, and for both to be right?
Well it depends, of course, on what they're disagreeing about. If it's a
matter of fac...
4 days ago from Epiphenom
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Scientists in the US have developed a calculator from living cells, using
old-fashioned analog programming. Their hope is that the technology could
be used...
4 days ago from The Allotrope
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The end of the school year has me thinking about summer vacations and I
have just added a new location to my vacation wish list. The Cape Horn
region of so...
6 days ago from Moss Plants and More
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*Martínez, R. N., Eliana Fernandez, E., and O. A. Alcober. 2013. A new
non-mammaliaform eucynodont from the Carnian-Norian Ischigualasto
Formation, Northwe...
1 week ago from Chinleana
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At my local mega-grocery store last weekend, I happened to stroll down the
aisle dedicated to homeopathic treatments. I saw shelf after shelf of
brightl...
1 week ago from Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience
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When it comes to handling radioactive waste the Hanford site in western
Washington state is the opposite of a role model. Ever since its reactors
started ...
1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
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How do we decide who to listen to about something chemical? I have a piece
in Slate this week (on the brouhaha around the teenager in Florida and the
exp...
2 weeks ago from The Culture of Chemistry
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*Text extracted from "The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring"
(1862) by George Arnold*
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This can be shown by...
2 weeks ago from Doc Madhattan
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A tweet by Jon Eisen last night reminded me what a pain it is to format
figures so they are acceptable to the PLOS journals' system.
Kate Stafford was ...
3 weeks ago from RRResearch
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Dark matter is the commonest, most elusive stuff in the universe. Can we
grasp this great unsolved problem in physics?
[image: Interior view of the LUX da...
4 weeks ago from The Astronomist
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*Roy Chapman Andrews* was not only an intrepid explorer and
palaeontologist, but also a gifted promoter. The *Central Asiatic
Expeditions* in search of fo...
1 month ago from History of Geology
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I enjoy the NFL, college hockey and basketball, and a little NASCAR to
pass a lazy Sunday afternoon on the couch. However, I'm not a huge follower
of any ...
1 month ago from Angry by Choice
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This blog has now moved. Join me for more pharmacological fun, and new and
exciting explorations into the minute and magical world of molecules at....
http...
6 months ago from A is for Aspirin
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A fictional book that became a dino blockbuster, and it was on the telly
last weekend! Jurassic Park is currently the 23rd highest-grossing film of
all tim...
7 months ago from The View from a Microbiologist
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Image credits (if not credited, public domain)
Ron Paul
Timothy Dolan
Rick Santorum
Mike Huckabee
Chris Christie
Marco Rubio
8 months ago from The Biology Files
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Image from Hochwagen Lab
This proposal was shouted out as “…one of the most important papers on the
control of meiotic crossing over…” (Hawley 2006). ...
11 months ago from Sex, Genes & Evolution
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I've been on a kick lately of re-reading my old favorite fantasy novels. I
started with some of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles, and am now going
ba...
1 year ago from PLEKTIX
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Joy of joys my most recent paper has just been published in Nucleic Acids
Research!
Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print]
Evolutionary a...
1 year ago from Protein Evolution and Other Musings
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(of course all IJ macros and IJ itself are free...)
So I got sick of constantly clicking away just to resize an image and add
some citation text to the bot...
1 year ago from Skeptic Wonder
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I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get
hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it
all i...
1 year ago from C6-H12-O6
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That's the question--as I stare at the census data in search of a juicy
trend--that would seem the most sensational and draw the most readers. A
trend...t...
1 year ago from Labs
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Our New Home: TelescopeFeed
1 year ago from The Large Picture Blog
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Trying to keep both this and my new sciam blog going has been a bit of a
strain. I've decided therefore that from now on all my science writing will
be hos...
1 year ago from Life of a Lab Rat
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Moving house again…
Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease
of the Week to here at Disease Prone to take advanta...
1 year ago from Disease Prone
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Quick post here ... just read this article - Richard Branson launches
Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines - Boing Boing which discusses
how Katri...
2 years ago from The Greenhouse
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