The mRNA’s Perilous Journey to the Synapse
From the depths of the cell soma, a humble mRNA makes its journey to fulfil its destiny. Riding on a Transporting Granule, the valiant CaMKII mRNA makes the perilous travel…
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A Cool Career in a Hot Field: Andreas Predicts the Weather and Conveys it with Augmented Reality
intervieweeAndreas Nyholm has a background in geophysics and for almost 10 years he has worked as a weatherman—the kind you see on television every evening. He was headhunted on live…
Communicating Science – A conversation with Massimiano Bucchi
On May 16 The Science Basement had the chance to interview Massimiano Bucchi, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Trento and editor of the international journal Public Understanding…
Ghosts in the universe
It may be that not all black holes have formed in the usual way: massive stars collapsing under their gravitational pressure. During the Big Bang, large enough inhomogeneities in matter…
Science in the Desert: Interview with Former Array Maintenance Manager at the World’s Largest Telescope ALMA – SCS Interview #2
Dr. David Rabanus worked as array maintenance manager for the world's largest telescope, ALMA, in the Atacama desert in Chile. ALMA observes parts of the night sky that regular telescopes…
A Field Note
A short documentary film about lake ice measurements on Lake Pitkäjärvi in Nuuksio, Finland. This was an experiment in using documentary in science communication and presenting field work in nature.
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Nominal data mining and cancer combinatorial therapy
What is nominal data mining? What are the challenges in the design of combinatorial therapies in cancer? Do you know that nominal data mining can be used to plan combinatorial…
Battle de suprême: CRISPR vs. RNAi based screening
Dear XXs and XYs, Welcome to the LoF Screening Championship hosted by the World Federation for Functional Genomics (WFFG).
A Christmas Carol (Lost in Translation ep.6)
Lost in translation is a comic about two researchers, Jargon and Jumble, getting into linguistic miscommunications due to the different meanings attached to certain words in their work life as…
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