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Molecule of the Month: 70S Ribosomes

Ribosomes are one of the wonders of the cellular world, and one of the many wonders you can explore yourself at the RCSB PDB. In 2000, structural biologists Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz...

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Does the D stand for debt?

Hooray! Jorge Cham of PHD Comics fame is coming to Toronto to give a lecture in the Faculty of Medicine! Wait, what’s that? It costs $10 to see Jorge Cham’s talk? The same Jorge Cham who has become...

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At the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London

I’ve spent the last few years doing my best to switch fields from single molecule biophysics to single animal biophysics. It’s been a challenge and a lot of fun. What’s especially exciting is that I’ve...

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Mapping the mind of a worm, one synapse at a time

John White is a legendary scientist who, with Eileen Southgate, mapped the wiring diagram of the entire nervous system of C. elegans. This is still the only complete wiring diagram, or connectome, that...

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Bill Bialek on theory in the age of Big Data

One of the most talked about Big Data projects in the last year or so has been the BRAIN initiative in the US. It was prompted by the incredible advances that are being made in technologies to image...

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First OpenWorm article published

The OpenWorm team is trying to simulate an entire animal. It’s a big goal, but C. elegans is the right place to start. I had the pleasure of meeting a good portion of the team last week in London at...

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Perspectives on the interface of physics and biology

Physical Biology has published a nice collection of perspective articles (and they’re freely available!) from scientists who have come to biology from various flavours of physics. They cover a range of...

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Initial results: new egg-laying mutants?

Cross posted from Worm Watch Lab blog. tl;dr: Using the data collected so far, we’ve already identified some mutants that look like they have different egg laying rates than the reference strain....

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TAGC Automated Tracking for Quantitative Phenotyping Workshop: Summary and...

The workshop presenters, in order of appearance: Harold Burgess, NIH http://ubn.nichd.nih.gov/ Megan Carey, Champalimaud http://neuro.fchampalimaud.org/en/person/3/ Gordon Berman, Emory...

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