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Mighty Minute
(July 27th, 2010) Welcome to the ‘geeky’ branch of medicine – nanomedicine. Soon, when we fall ill, we’ll no longer need any pharmaceutical drugs because teensy-weensy particles will take care of everything. The future starts now.
more...Confessions of a Postdoc (3) -- My colleagues and I
(July 23rd, 2010) And suddenly you are a postdoc… In this column, Anjana Nityanandam is sharing her experiences, thoughts and feelings about the chapter of a life science research career that many regard as the most decisive one.
more...Fight Fractures
(July 16th, 2010) Can martial arts fall training protect the elderly from osteoporosis-related hip fractures? A Research Letter from the Netherlands by our corresponding author, Piet Van Damme.
more..."My current position is 'Forsker'"
(July 8th, 2010) More than four years ago Japanese neuroscientist Ayumu Tashiro started working at the Centre for the Biology of Memory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. Lab Times asked him about his experiences in doing life science research in Norway to date.
more...Life. Science. Community.
(June 28th, 2010) It’s already a while ago. In March, PhD students from across the Life Science disciplines met in Munich, Germany to share their research findings, discuss their scientific opinions and network within the local student community. A retrospective report from the third interact 2010 life sciences PhD symposium by Latika Bhonsle.
more...“If You Don’t Take Risks, You Don’t Make Progress”
(June 17th, 2010) British-born theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman J. Dyson, professor emeritus at Princeton University, USA, talks about the potential impact of synthetic biology on the future of mankind.
more...Life Science Research in Israel -- Two Interviews
(June 9th, 2010) Two views on doing life science research in Israel. One from an Israeli who has just left for doing a PhD in Germany, the other from a Dutchman who is currently working as a senior lecturer at an Israeli university.
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Analysis: Sex Bias - Does medication have different effects on female and male organisms?
“We’ll have our own drugs; we’ll have our own dosing. We’ll be different, ’cause we know we are,” says Deborah Clegg from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and “we” in this case refers to women. What at first glance sounds like a full-bodied statement with a “feminist twist” might, on closer examination, not actually be so far-fetched because with the naked eye the casual observer is already able to identify obvious physical differences between the male and female gender; a more attentive observer will also see them on a physiological level. … moreObservations of The Owl -
Why Size Matters?
Remember King Kong, the
XXXL gorilla that fell tragically in love with a blonde beauty in a handful of cinema movies? Or those ants in the 1954 movie ‘Them!’ that, after an atomic test, mutated into giant man-eating monsters? Yeah, the fifties of the last century were particularly rich in ‘horror’ movies, featuring all kinds of giant creatures: a mega spider in ‘Tarantula’, gargantuan grasshoppers in ‘Beginning of the End’ and there are no prizes for guessing what probably played the main part in ‘The Black Scorpion’. morePublication Analysis 1997-2008: Urology Research
Of all the European countries, Germany published the most articles in urology journals but England collected slightly more citations. The paramount topic was tumours of the urogenital tract, particularly prostate cancer. And, briefly mentioned, two scandals that shook European urology....moreTips and tricks of the trade: Rockin’ Harder - Lipofection of mammalian cells
Lipofection of mammalian cells using commercial transfection reagents or kits from different vendors is usually based on very similar protocols. The transfection reagent is first mixed with DNA and incubated for about half-an-hour to form DNA lipofection reagent complexes. In the next step, the latter are added to plates containing adherent cells and the cells are mixed with the transfection solution by gently rocking the plates back and forth. more