This is the fourth part of the #organellewars round-up. Read up on the background here, if you missed it! Lysosome4The Win http://storify.com/Lysosome4TheWin/lysosomes-organelle-wars-2012 VoteForLysosome http://storify.com/VoteForLysosome/lysosomes-a-little-big-deal Lysosomes2012 http://storify.com/Lysosomes2012/lysosomes-2012
From time to time I like to search for ‘Golgi apparatus’ and ‘plant cell’ in Twitter, because I love to get a vibe for the current perception of organelles by students. Usually it is a mix between ‘haha, Golgi apparatus,…
Dr Ali Roberts emailed me a great link: How big is your potato? After calibrating the scale on your screen with a credit card you can drag the size of the virtual potato to resemble the size of your real potato.…
Aren’t these the most amazing cupcakes ever? Seton Hurson Rossini from Pixel Whisk has posted a complete tutorial on how to make this incredibly realistic succulent plant cupcakes. I am in complete awe of her baking skills. Looks like the…
Hello there! Against all rumours, this blog is not dead (yet). I was away on holiday for a couple of weeks, one of which I spent in Iceland. On the flight back I watched the Futurama episode “Reincarnation“. Where would…
What did I do at work today? Shuttled DNA into bacteria. Dipped arabidopsis plants into bacteria. Meeting. Another meeting. Another meeting. Oh, and I made a balloon kebab! Why did I make one? Because I can! Just kidding. Because we…
How many of these sound familiar? 1) When you open a new review about a conserved eukaryotic protein family, you first perform a whole document search for “plant” and “arabidopsis”. 2) People assume that you know the name of every…
I have discovered http://memegenerator.net/. Expect more in the future. If you come up with a good plant science one, let me know and I will feature it here!
In this video by Andrew Harrison, Charlie Chaplin and an unnamed plant biologist show us how they turn frozen peas into samples for microscopy. This is the more detailed video description from Chlorofilms, where the video won an honourable mention…
It’s the 24th December and the advent calendar has come to an end. I hope that you enjoyed it. I will be back in January to blog about plants, cells and science. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and an…
DNA 2.0 has just reported on a recent science paper about a new range of fluorescent proteins. The PDF can be downloaded here. Without any doubt this has to be the most groundbreaking publication of 2011 and I urge everyone…
This song has nothing to do with plants or cells, but it features the science of blood clotting, a ukulele and a toy piano. What more could you ask for!