Why, why, why? can I not keep cells on glass?! I (anybody) can get them to stay on plastic, no problem. And they’re fibroblasts – bloody self-spot-welding limpets! Stick like […]

I was under the impression that this kind of thing was already in effect. No Home Secretary-style frivolities for us, then.

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” (Albert Einstein) As one who readily admits to the kind of stupidity identified here, […]

In case you’re concerned that any of your seemingly ignored blog pieces have been long forgotten, take heart. From today, all internet service providers are legally obliged to store details […]

I was sucked into TV last weekend, by two treatments of the association between (mathematical) creative genius and mental illness, as provided by films on consecutive evenings: A Beautiful Mind […]

Having, for some unfathomable reason (being a group of one: group leader, postdoc, technician, dogsbody), been invited into our select ‘P.I. Forum’, which meets monthly to discuss grant ideas on […]

As a subscriber to NewScientist, I’m prey to its marketing tactics. In my E-mail inbox this week: ‘When you were little, your Mum was always there for you. Now you […]

I’ve been lazy today: into work briefly, hurriedly, to set up a half-hearted experiment, which won’t work, but if I don’t make use of the tissue, I feel guilty – […]