I gotta feeling that this song’s gonna be a useful song… written by Mr Hsu to the music of the BlackEyed Peas.
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Tag: cell
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Dr Kentaro Tamura
This post is part of the new series “Faces of Plant Cell Biology”. In this series I am going to post answers of plant cell biologists at all stages of their career to a set of five questions. For obvious…
Expedition into Cellular Landscapes
Have you ever wondered how things might look like inside your body, inside every tiny cell? Check out these stunning photo-realistic and interactive rendered “Cellular Landscapes” by Cell Signaling Technology. The image above shows the cellular landscape around a mitochondrion,…
What are the parts of a cell? Even a friendly alien could understand this!
The Khan Academy is on a mission to provide free online educational resources for everyone, no matter if you are a student, teacher or “a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology”. With over 2700…
Heartfelt presents for organ lovers (…and I don’t mean the musical instrument)
I am a big Etsy addict and could spend hours browsing the Treasury or bead suppliers. But most of all, I love discovering unique and unusual shops – just like “your friendly neighbourhood organ grinder“! Surely the only thing…
Faces of Plant Cell Biology: Charlotte Carroll
First of all, I would like to wish you a happy, healthy and successful new year 2012! When I was pondering about blog topics for 2012 I thought that it would be nice to publish short profiles of plant cell…
Twas the Night before Christmas
(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…
The Plant Cell Biology Advent Calendar – 1st December
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…
Cell-o-ween: wear something different for Halloween!
Halloween is approaching quickly and if you don’t have a costume yet and love science, why not come up with something completely different? Here are some ideas: 1) Green fluorescent protein Green fluorescent protein (or short, GFP) glows brightly in…
Sushi Cell
Check out this amazing Sushi Cell by “Scientist In Training”! The kidney beans are mitochondria, the Golgi bodies are made from spam and rice resembles the cytoplasm. I am hungry now!
Cell Wars
Did you know that the 21st of May is Talk Like Yoday Day? If unsure how to speak like yoda you are, this neat website try. Paste your text in the box and, translate it for you, will it! Yeesssssss.…
Parts of a Plant Cell
YouTube user mrspereiraclass uploaded this very nice animation which explains the parts of a plant cell and the functions of specialised cells in different parts of the whole plant.