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Yogurt Shows the Way for a Revolution in Genome Editing

March 25, 2014

A yogurt producer with concerns, a puzzling aspect of bacterial genomes, a discussion over coffee, and a new MIT faculty…

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There and Back Again: The Beginning of iBiology

March 21, 2014
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On a cold morning in Nashville, Tennessee, Ron Vale, professor at the University of California San Francisco, and a Howard…

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Succeeding as a “Failed” Scientist

March 14, 2014
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Are you a postdoc looking for an alternative career? Have you considered tenure-track academic research? This may sound funny on…

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To Be or Not To Be…A Postdoc

March 7, 2014
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“What are you going to do when you’re finished?” “Have you started looking for postdocs?” “When you choose where to…

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The Budget Dance—Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

March 4, 2014

2013 will always be known as the year of sequestration. The inability of Congress to do its job resulted in…

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Are You Still Reading PDFs? Try Lens

February 28, 2014
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When reading a paper, I often find myself furiously flipping back and forth between the text and figures. This is…

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Getting to Know the Human Side of Research (With Just One Click)

February 21, 2014
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James Watson became interested in science because of bird migration. He was six years old. Many years later he was…

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Grad School Pays in Other Ways

February 14, 2014
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When I sat down to write this essay I intended to describe how bad graduate student stipends are, how overworked…

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Alternatives to the Traditional Lab Notebook

February 7, 2014
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It used to make sense to paste data into a lab notebook. Western blots were exposed on film, DNA gel…

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MAC – E.E. Just Lectureship 2013

February 4, 2014

Biographical Sketch – J. Victor Garcia-Martinez, 2013 Garcia-Martinez is a professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology in the Center for…

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