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One of the problems those who work looking inside the body encounter every day is that there is just too much “flesh” around and finding the tree you’re looking for is difficult in such a dense forest. But, what if we could make all trees in the forest other than those we are interested in,…
There’s many ways to recognize a scientist and maybe surprisingly to some, the lab coat is not the most obvious, neither is the bad hair nor the distracted look, as the topic falsely assumes. In fact, the easier way to recognise them is that while having a beer -not necessarily the fourth one- they are…
Love is in the air…actually there is more cold and snow but don’t let that cool you down. Today we are talking about oxytocin. You know, that hormone they call the love hormone because it is secreted during coitus and it is partly responsible for those butterflies in your stomach at the beginning of a…
We can all be scientists. Actually, we experiment every day with little things such as a new recipe, a new outfit or a new hairstyle. But there are people who decide to take their research a step further and become a walking experiment. If not, just remember the example of scientists like Pierre Curie and…
Even cavemen were scientists. Thanks to their curiosity we managed to discover fire, to invent the wheel and develop all those tools that in time lead us to the fancy cars, computers and phones we use today. But today it might happen that we have to go back to playing with stones and sticks, at…
Here the most important result of my experiments last week, or so it is if you ask me -low motivation days-. And days like these are depicted in the first of the photo series I bring you, because our life is a whirl. Not just because we spend our days doing experiments and going from…
Politics slips into everything. From the moment you turn on the TV at home to the minute you open the newspaper to read while you drink your morning coffee and even here, in the lab when it comes the time to discuss budgets and project proposals. But it is not just the good-ol’ politics that…
One of the most amazing things of working in science and that my job has to do with imaging and big fancy microscopes is the unbelievable beauty that -sometimes- can be found underneath our data. Precisely for that reason, there are plenty of scientific photo contest around the world, and I haven’t yet met a…
Many, many years ago,when I was still at university, during that horrible pre-exams period where everyone used to hide at home, I took to documentaries. The DiscoveryChannel Type. And I remember that one of them presented a “scientist” trying to predict the winner of a race based only in the relative ration of 2 fingers,…
Drop the pippette for a second. Close your eyes. And imagine. Imagine the possibility of working in what you REALLY like: Science. Now, imagine doing it without having to meet deadlines or commiting yourself to work on a project that just has to produce an outcome for industry or a high impact paper To be…