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Raising being quoted out of context to an art form: 'awesome, but not always right'. Drinks well with scientists.
Richard Grant
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- June 17, 2010
- 08:18 AM
- 2,337 views
On all sorts of wrong
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
Just in case you haven't seen it elsewhere, here's a quick one. A tweet from mjrobbins (also at the Lay Scientist) left me quite unable to work, this morning. I was seriously angered and sickened. Whatever your views on female...... Read more »
YANG, J., FELSEN, D., & POPPAS, D. (2007) Nerve Sparing Ventral Clitoroplasty: Analysis of Clitoral Sensitivity and Viability. The Journal of Urology, 178(4), 1598-1601. DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2007.05.097
- June 3, 2010
- 05:03 AM
- 1,022 views
On coupling
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
No, not that sort of coupling. I was writing up today's Faculty Dailies, catching up on (yet) another paper about how ribosomes control the rate of transcription. As has been known for decades, bacterial transcription and translation are tightly coupled....... Read more »
Proshkin, S., Rahmouni, A., Mironov, A., & Nudler, E. (2010) Cooperation Between Translating Ribosomes and RNA Polymerase in Transcription Elongation. Science, 328(5977), 504-508. DOI: 10.1126/science.1184939
- May 21, 2010
- 10:28 AM
- 2,158 views
On synthesis
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
Oh my God, we're all going to die, exclaimed the Daily Mail today. Well, we are all going to die some day, but not because of the paper from the J. Craig Venter Institute, published in Science. I'm having a...... Read more »
Gibson, D., Glass, J., Lartigue, C., Noskov, V., Chuang, R., Algire, M., Benders, G., Montague, M., Ma, L., Moodie, M.... (2010) Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome. Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.1190719
- April 25, 2010
- 01:48 PM
- 2,144 views
On unfortunate juxtapositions
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
There's an Italian cafe/deli round the corner. It's a quiet place, which seems to suit the proprietors well in a Black Books-sort of way (although without the personality defects): they open when they feel like it and there are...... Read more »
Hamada, T., Sakube, Y., Ahnn, J., Kim, D., & Kagawa, H. (2002) Molecular Dissection, Tissue Localization and Ca2 Binding of the Ryanodine Receptor of Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Molecular Biology, 324(1), 123-135. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01032-X
- December 9, 2009
- 07:02 AM
- 1,298 views
On Public Relations
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
Regular listeners will remember the Science Online London gathering back in August. The day before, Mendeley hosted a pre-conference ‘fringe’ event, organized by Jenny. It turned out to be quite a wild evening, and there is video evidence of shenanigans.
One thing I remember clearly (some of you might be surprised I remember anything from that evening, but anyway) is David Colquhoun getting a tad rabid about PR. The gist was that science doesn’t need PR, it’s a w........ Read more »
Christen, W., Glynn, R., Chew, E., & Buring, J. (2009) Low-Dose Aspirin and Medical Record–Confirmed Age-related Macular Degeneration in a Randomized Trial of Women. Ophthalmology, 116(12), 2386-2392. DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.05.031
- June 22, 2009
- 11:34 AM
- 1,220 views
On article-level metrics and other animals
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
What I wanted to talk about yesterday, before I got distracted, was a mix of things that came out of last Monday’s ALPSP meeting, a paper in PLoS One and this whole assessment schtick that we’ve got going on.
We know, don’t we, that the Impact Factor as a measure of an individual scientist’s productivity is deeply flawed. Some might go as far as to say it’s flawed fundamentally and should be ditched forthwith: after all it is prone to gaming, unduly skewed by revie........ Read more »
Allen, L., Jones, C., Dolby, K., Lynn, D., & Walport, M. (2009) Looking for Landmarks: The Role of Expert Review and Bibliometric Analysis in Evaluating Scientific Publication Outputs. PLoS ONE, 4(6). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005910
- June 5, 2009
- 06:27 PM
- 2,380 views
On chemistry
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
One of my enduring memories of Oxford is sitting in the Chemistry School lecture theatre while a long-haired, leather-jacketed lecturer covered the blackboards in chalky organic reactions (the first time ever I heard about S~N~2 reactions; and a whole heap other stuff I have since forgotten) non-stop for an hour. One of the advantages of taking Biochemistry, instead of something less hardcore, say, is that I got to learn real science instead of just squishy biological stuff, which might surprise........ Read more »
Jordan, A., & Roughley, S. (2009) Drug discovery chemistry: a primer for the non-specialist. Drug Discovery Today. DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2009.04.005
- June 2, 2009
- 05:24 PM
- 1,277 views
On speed dating
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
Does a 7% change mean anything?... Read more »
Finkel, E. J. . (2009) Role reversal undermines speed-dating theories. Psychol. Sci.
- October 21, 2008
- 12:00 AM
- 2,302 views
Little Wing
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
Cutting wings off butterflies... Read more »
B. Jantzen, & T. Eisner. (2008) Hindwings are unnecessary for flight but essential for execution of normal evasive flight in Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(43), 16636-16640. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807223105
- September 10, 2008
- 12:00 AM
- 1,312 views
From the Department of "Hot damn but that's cool"
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
How heating and cooling in bags of lipid could have generated the first 'replicative' genome.... Read more »
S. S. Mansy, & J. W. Szostak. (2008) Thermostability of model protocell membranes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(36), 13351-13355. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805086105
- April 3, 2008
- 12:00 AM
- 1,593 views
My spaghetti takes up more room than yours
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
The moving story of how we finally published the finding that amoeboid cell motility is driven by simple gel expansion effects, or, I yearn to learn how the worm sperm turns... Read more »
L. Miao, O. Vanderlinde, J. Liu, R. P. Grant, A. Wouterse, K. Shimabukuro, A. Philipse, M. Stewart, & T. M. Roberts. (2008) The role of filament-packing dynamics in powering amoeboid cell motility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(14), 5390-5395. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708416105
- December 7, 2007
- 12:00 AM
- 1,650 views
Complete control
by Richard Grant in Confessions of a (former) Lab Rat
A rather splendid structure of the N-terminal domain of Nab2, an RNA export 'gate-keeper'.... Read more »
R GRANT, N MARSHALL, J YANG, M FASKEN, S KELLY, M HARREMAN, D NEUHAUS, A CORBETT, & M STEWART. (2008) Structure of the N-Terminal Mlp1-Binding Domain of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mRNA-Binding Protein, Nab2. Journal of Molecular Biology, 376(4), 1048-1059. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.11.087
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