As one who rightly or wrongly assumes that one of the purposes of NN is to provide platform to those who wish to rant / wax lyrical on the trials […]

Due to staff holidays, today was the first tissue collection for three weeks. But two samples yielded nothing. So I still can’t get on with that probably unnecessary extra experiment, […]

Accuse me of tricho-fission if you must, but what about the misappropriate use of the word ‘in’? Specifically, when it’s coupled with ‘believe.’ Because it’s a bit presumptuous, isn’t it? […]

Four months! Thirteen passages (including three by a very supportive Lab Manager during my oblivion). Always acknowledge a courtesy Sensitive cells (before you quiz, “So what?”). Although not growing in […]

I confess… I’m struggling. I’ve been back a week, most of it jet-lagged from a sleepless overnight flight following a long escapist holiday, still deaf in one ear, a foggy-headed […]

In the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, viewing, from the balcony terraces of Centro Histórico pousadas, the ships anchored in queue before their cargo containers are craned on […]

So, last Friday evening, and I’ve just deposited a drop of pre-warmed medium onto a sterile glass plate, and I go to collect the tiny piece of tissue on the […]

I am, for reasons I’m not wholly conversant with, on the E-mailing list of the US-based Center for Inquiry. Thus, I get invited to all sorts of seemingly fun stuff […]