Gene genie
There’s a lot of cool things you can do with DNA – much better than the stuff I see in CSI on an almost nightly basis… … Read more
There’s a lot of cool things you can do with DNA – much better than the stuff I see in CSI on an almost nightly basis… … Read more
A paper in PNAS has just caught my eye, because it emphasizes a problem common in natural product research – where do these funky molecules really originate? Read more
I don’t often plug Nature Nanotechnology papers here on the blog, but I couldn’t resist this one… (mostly because of the title I get to use!) … Read more
The office coffee machine broke down this morning, so I’ve been using Coca-Cola to fight off the postprandial dip. I rarely drink soda (aside from the occasional Cuba Libre), so I’m usually the last to know about (crazy) new kinds of soda. But there’s a case of Diet Coke Plus in our office refrigerator – you might not have seen it in your local supermarket, but it’s a new version of Diet Coke that contains several vitamins and minerals: … Read more
1. What made you want to be a chemist? Read more
So I’ve just returned from Germany, one of many lands of superior chocolate goodies… Oops – that’s not related. Read more
1. What made you want to be a chemist? Read more
My fellow Cambridge-London commuters; did you work it out? Once you know that it depicts a gene, it’s annoyingly obvious. But despite travelling past it by train about three days per week, I failed to identify the thousands of brightly coloured bars painted on the cycle path next to the rail track near Cambridge’s Addenbrooke’s hospital as a nucleotide sequence. It should have been a clue that only four colours are used. Read more
Being an associate editor of Nature Nanotechnology, I now know a lot more about carbon nanotubes that I ever thought I would. There’s a lot I don’t know, however, and I was surprised by what I learned today… … Read more
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