Small (5)

Oh cool, I had this as a simple picture and been wanting to post it for a long time, but in HDTV it is soooo much better! So without further ado, feel small at this, you measly earthworm (or alien intercepting the blog post whatever)! Except, what do they mean at the end? Surely I

Cool science 2: designing a protein

This was one of the reasons I chose bio over organic chemistry: the distant promise of designing custom proteins from scratch. OK, I went astray and ended up in cell biology and genetics, but hey… it’s the thought that counts :-)! Design and engineering of an O(2) transport protein, Nature, Mar 2009 Again, the full

Cool science 1: targeted erasure of memories

One of my interests is how the brain works and so I find this new article in Science übercool =D: Selective erasure of a fear memory, Science, Mar 2009 The full abstract is hidden below the fold, but here is my version of the story: The authors have first (well, in another piece of research) found which