Christina Szalinski

How to choose a good mentor

April 15, 2016
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A critical decision for a young scientist is choosing a mentor. Often when new students begin graduate school, they have…

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Cell News—Could GMO Xenotransplants Break the Donor Bottleneck?

April 12, 2016

The name may evoke images of “The Island of Dr. Moreau” or of countless comic book superheroes who are human-animal…

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Cell News—Elephantnose, my eye!

April 11, 2016

An Elephantnose might sound like a stage prop from circus freak shows of a bygone era, but this very real…

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How to choose a research area

April 8, 2016
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Often in our scientific careers we are faced with the question of how to choose an area of research to…

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Just Say "No"—Against the Silence of the Scientific Job Market

April 1, 2016
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It is not easy to get an academic position nowadays, and this is not news. The academic job market is…

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Run for Your Life: Exercise Protects against Cancer

March 31, 2016

When you’re pounding along an icy pavement or sweating through a gym workout, you try to remind yourself of the…

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Improving Scientific Efficiency in Undergraduate Research Laboratories

March 18, 2016
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In depictions of the founding age of science, such as that of Dr. Frankenstein, we always see the lone scientist…

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Carnival of Disaster as Rio de Janeiro Looks at 50% Science Cuts

March 15, 2016

“The tumor had given a first hint of its existence in St. Louis, but it was in Rio de Janeiro…

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Efficient Thinking in the Midst of Forced Collaboration

March 11, 2016
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Collaboration has its place in scientific research, and always will. It is impossible to fathom a world in which individual…

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Cell News—Cytoskeleton Regulates Left-Right Asymmetry in Frogs

March 7, 2016

The heart, stomach, and liver are asymmetrical organs and so for normal development in an embryo, proper left-right patterning must occur…

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