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“I have often thought how much more interesting science would be if those who created it told how it really happened, rather than reported it logically and impersonally, as they so often do in scientific papers.”
This was the opening paragraph of an essay written by George Beadle, a geneticist, and it was included in a book made for the 60th birthday of bio...
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it fail, and try again. What happens when that person never gets the chance? Maybe they never made it to the laboratory, or maybe staying there required clearing too many obstacles that had nothing to do...
Written by R. Friedrich Bliem
Keywords: Interdisciplinarity, art, science, creative practice
AbstractScience abstracts regularities in the world to model and predict outcomes, while art renders similar structures in material form; in both intuition plays a central role in shaping understanding and practice. Cognition and perception...
Small historic background:
In an era when caspases are known as killer proteins, Drosophila Malpighian tubules state otherwise. Drosophila is a holometabolous insect, meaning that it goes through three life stages: larval, pupal and adult. The pupal stage of insect development is when the major transformation occurs. Mos...
Bioinformatics can seem intimidating, especially when you’re just starting out. But you don’t need to be an expert to begin exploring single-cell RNA-seq data. In this short tutorial, I walk through a simple four-step workflow using a publicly available dataset from the developing zebrafish heart: get the data, prepare it, visualize the cells, and ask a biologic...