What HeLa Cells Are You Using?
The HeLa cell line, named after the patient Henrietta Lacks, was one the first human cell lines to be used for tissue culture. In the decades since its origin, it has become a feature in labs acros...
Read ItThe HeLa cell line, named after the patient Henrietta Lacks, was one the first human cell lines to be used for tissue culture. In the decades since its origin, it has become a feature in labs acros...
Read ItA professor at a "research" university is expected to contribute to Research, Teaching, and Service. Tenure and promotions are supposed to rest on sufficient contributions in all these areas. Tra...
Read ItCorrespondence re: Forsberg, L. A., et al. 2014. "Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in peripheral blood is associated with shorter survival and higher risk of cancer." Nat Genet 46 (6):624-8. doi: 10.103...
Read ItThe following are pre-publication peer reviews received on the manuscript: Will we cure cancer by sequencing thousands of genomes (Nicholson 2013), which was initially rejected and later resubmitte...
Read ItCorrespondence re: Villeda et al. 2014."Young blood reverses age-related impairments in cognitive function and synaptic plasticity in mice." Nat Med no. 20 (6):659-63. doi: 10.1038/nm.3569.
Read ItCorrespondence re: Zimonjic et al. 2001. "Derivation of human tumor cells in vitro without widespread genomic instability." Cancer Res no. 61 (24):8838-44. Submitted to Cancer Research 8/19/2002, r...
Read ItCorrespondence re: Stringer, C. 2014. "Why we are not all multiregionalists now." Trends Ecol Evol no. 29 (5):248-251
Read ItBackground. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging, multi-drug resistant bacterium associated with a wide spectrum of life-threatening, hospital acquired infections. Attributable mortality ra...
Read ItArcheology and the origins of antibiotic resistance Farshid Jalalvand PhD-student in Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden When the bacteriologist and "accidental" discoverer of penici...
Read ItCorrespondence re: Hung, C. M., et al. 2014. "Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A no. 111 (29):10636-41. doi: 10.1073/pna...
Read ItReading something new Every once in a while, it is healthy for established concepts and standard procedures to be challenged by ideas that come from outside the discipline's specialist field. They ...
Read ItPhylogenomics is a field in which genome analysis and evolutionary reconstructions are integrated. This integration is important because genome data is of great value in evolutionary reconstruct...
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