Nick at BiteSizeBio gives of a list of ways to make fewer mistakes in lab. 1. Use a checklist. 2. New protocols and SOPs: write out your own version. 3. Annotate. If you make a mistake in a protocol, annotate your copy so that you won’t make the...

Dear all journal publishers, If the RSS feed to your journal is missing a TOC image or a full list of the authors, you need to correct that. Reading just titles can be hard, especially when you skim through many journals. TOC images make that much...

In keeping with green traditions, we’re required to trade out Hg containing thermometers.  For those cases where no equivalent alcohol thermometers exist, they supply Hg thermometers that are encased in Teflon.  One of those thermometers was my baby,...

What is the greatest medical invention of all time? Bob Park says that it was the double-blind study. That may be an exaggeration, but I think we all can agree that applying scientific, fact-based methods to healthcare sounds like a good thing. But...

Not a surprising move, but nice that it’s finalized now. Paul Alivisatos is now the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He’s taking Steve Chu’s old job. Good luck, Paul.