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A frosty start to the day, clear skies, little wind, would that be perfect weather for hunting Short-eared Owls at NT Burwell Fen, I wondered. Did a few chores, made a coffee, drove the bumpy ride to the reach bridge parking at the back of the fen. Another quick snap of the 2D sculpture there … Continue reading "Burwell bull and Short-eared Owls"

Orange organelles

Zhengnian Li was synthesizing an organic compound with a long name—2-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)-5-nitropyrimidine—when he noticed the concentrate in his flask looked suspiciously like a collection of nucleated cells. Li is a postdoc in Nathanael Gray’s lab at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and his team is interested in developing new small-molecule kinase inhibitors, compounds that are used sometimes to treat cancer. Li extracted his intermediate using ethyl acetate and dried... Читать дальше...

I tell this tale over and over again, I think most friends and relatives have heard it at least three times by now. Still, my Dad kindly laughs every time he hears it. Mrs Sciencebase just rolls her eyes…and not in a good way. Anyway, we were on a camping trip to one of our … Continue reading "How I met David Bradley"

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