…and then fill it up with essential gingerbread lab equipment – such as these Petri dishes with icing sugar bacterial colonies growing on them or DNA agarose gels. And of course you’d need a researcher to conduct these all important…
Cafepress.co.uk has some great designs which you can get on T-Shirts, mugs or stickers. Perfect if you are still looking for a present for that scientist close to your heart…(Disclaimer: I am not getting any advertising money!) Plant Scientist by…
(found at the AP Bio list-serv) Twas the night before Christmas and all through the cell, Not a creature was stirring, not even an organelle. The chromosomes were hung in nucleus with care, In hopes that mitosis would soon take…
This nice video by Kew Gardens explains the traditions behind decorating our houses with Christmas trees, holly and mistletoe. What do these plants symbolise and what is their history? How can they be used as medicine? Where can you find…
How wide was the smallest Christmas card you ever got? Maybe 5 – 10 cm? Or even less? Captured by the Beltsville Electron Microscopy Unit, part of the USDA. Sixty Symbols has produced this fantastic video in which they document…
Baubles, stars and angels…traditional Christmas ornaments are beautiful, but the geek inside me always stomps her feet and screams for something a little bit different. Therefore I was delighted when I found Audrey Jeanne’s tutorial for microscopy slide Christmas ornaments.…
Can you name the four that things plants need to grow? Now imagine these resources an environment like the Arctic, where temperatures can drop below −50 °C. Sir David Attenborough explains in this video how some plants manage to survive…
Poinsettias, or Christmas Stars, pop up everywhere once the holidays are coming closer. What looks like bright red flowers are specialised leaves, so-called bracts. Bracts turn from green to red when the plants start to flower in response to shorter…
Great video and article in which Dr Larry Silverberg explains how it is possible for Santa to deliver presents across the world using a nano-toymaker and relativity clouds.
Ecologist Dr Markus Eichhorn talks about the different christmas tree species, how they cope with the central heating in your home and why he prefers natural christmas trees to artificial ones.
I thought it would be a fun experiment to try and put together a Plant Cell Biology Advent Calendar, with christmas-sy entries related to plants, cells, biology or science! I am not entirely sure yet if I will manage to…
