La mejor ciencia para mentes hambrientas
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How can scientists see the intricate details inside cells far too small for regular light microscopes? A powerful technique called expansion microscopy is revolutionizing how researchers study tiny organisms from plankton to developing embryos.
If you want to know more about how, check the full article in MappingIgnorance.org
There are days like these, that suck. Days when you ask yourself, what am I doing here? Days where it seems like the motivation dose they gave you at your scientific baptism (if such a contradictory thing could ever exist) has run out. Not a single drop left. And even then, you get up, get…
The sun still hasn’t risen in the horizon, but it doesn’ t matter. The light of the fluorescent tubes is always on. Those that make your skin look gray even in a city were the sun is almost never missing (so statistics say). It doesn’t matter if it is Monday or Sunday, there’s always light…
It might seem a more than gruesome recipe for many. More if we think that these were the ingredients of the headline for an article published in the Medical Daily to report on the findings of recent work appeared in the journal PNAS. As it usually happens, there was a lot of the two first…
Many (if not most) clinical trials end up failing, but given the bias towards positive results sometimes the reasons for their not working remain unclear. Luckily, a team at Open Targets and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have analysed the reasons for aborted clinical trials mentioned in Clinicaltrials.gov, the open-source register for clinical trials worldwide,…
For those of you who still haven’t noticed. Things are getting tough out there. I am not talking about Germany…yet, but all over the world cuts in science funding are becoming more than an anecdote. It’s taking place in the States, in the UK, even in “rich” countries such as Holland there are some issues….
The other day talking to some members of our Asociation of spanish scientists in Germany (CERFA) we came to topic of writing. It might seem a bit far fetched, that is, if you don’t know that science involves more than the work done on a bench, at a microscope or in front of one or…