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Month: June 2018

New EMBOlism – Resurrection Science

June 30, 2018 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ Leave a comment

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Our latest EMBOlism is now online – we hope this lodges in your brain! There’s references to “Jurassic Park”, chaos theory, genealogy, the British royal family, Jane Eyre, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Pixar, vampires, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and much more…

You can read the text HERE.

A bartender’s guide to the life sciences

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 2 Comments
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A rather silly posting this week, but at this point in the semester everyone needs a drink. If you were a bartender though, which tipple would you offer to each type of life scientist? TIR makes a few suggestions to all the amateur mixologists out there… Continue reading →

Angels with dirty faces 

June 14, 2018 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 6 Comments

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Getting research funding is like playing a casino, but it’s not just the house that holds the aces. Continue reading →

Who’s at the wheel?

June 10, 2018June 10, 2018 ~ Brooke Morriswood ~ 6 Comments
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Unthinking reliance on commercial research aids and reagents can cause a debilitating erosion in basic knowledge.  Continue reading →

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