Online Editorials

Size Does Matter

(May 24^th, 2013) Many different animals have made their way into research labs – the most popular ones are small-sized rodents. But there’s a new trend towards using larger lab animals like sheep and mini pigs to model complex human diseases.

Confessions of a Postdoc (10): The Challenge of Pedagogy

(May 21^st, 2013) Until December 2010, Anjana Nityanandam shared her inner thoughts, experiences and feelings that come with being a postdoc with us. Now she’s back with fresh insights into the world of a research scientist that many are probably all too familiar with.

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A Win-Win Situation

(May 17^th, 2013) Manipulating behaviour for one’s own benefit is a tactic followed by many living species. One recent example involves a virus, a plant and a fly. Interestingly, the infectious three-some is to the advantage of two of the participants.

Why Don’t Men Understand Women?

(May 15^th, 2013) It is a popular myth that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. But while physical differences between men and women are obvious, cognitive and affective disparities are more difficult to measure.

Interview Suresh Rattan – Part I and II

(May 10^th, 2013) For biogerontologist, Suresh Rattan, from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, extending health-span and longevity is a matter of understanding what determines health and how to maintain it in the first place (see LT 3-2013). Read the entire interview here.

Careers in Singapore

(May 7^th, 2013) Working, where others go for their holidays. This is just one reason to pack all your bags and try your luck in South East Asia. Ralf Jauch also wanted to satisfy his pioneering spirit.

Diesel, with Love from E. coli

(May 3^rd, 2013) As THE guinea pig of molecular biology, E. coli has already been exploited in countless ways. Now scientists at the University of Exeter trained their favourite prokaryote to produce nothing less than gasoline.

Behind Bars

(April 30^th, 2013) Up until now, research misconduct has been treated more or less like a trivial offence. Funding may be cut for a short period of time or convicted scientists may need to resign from their posts. But recently, the first scientist was jailed for falsifying results.

The Scienticks (14): Undercover

(April 26^th, 2013) Only the cleaning lady knows what’s going on, she’s entrusted with an important mission. With a little delay, enjoy reading the fourteenth episode of our science thriller The Scienticks by Nanür.

5 Questions to... Roland Eberwein

(April 23^th, 2013) Cyber crime does not stop before science. For almost half a year, fake websites imposing for real academic journals, rip-off scientists. It’s hard to stop them. We talked to one of the ‘victims’, Wulfenia editor-in-chief Roland Eberwein.

When Muscles Wake Up…

(April 19^th, 2013) Latest since Peter Agre was awarded the Nobel Prize ten years ago, Aquaporins have been in the spotlight. During the last three decades, several important discoveries involving water channels have been made, the latest one coming from Italy.

Once Upon a Time... In Your Head

(April 16^th, 2013) Science and art has been combined in many ways, mostly through beautiful microscopic pictures. But how about something much cooler, a graphic novel, perhaps? Over some drinks, a neuroscientist teamed up with a comic artist and the result is Neurocomic.