My favorite biology gifsA study from the Dalia and Brun labs at Indiana University (go Hoosiers!) showed images of how Vibrio cholera can use pili to capture and…Oct 2, 2018Oct 2, 2018
Trump has no science teamFrom the fervor over the March for Science to Trump’s budget calling for major science cuts to a climate change denier running the EPA…Mar 26, 2017Mar 26, 2017
Geographic polarization of U.S. scienceIs science as segregated as our politics?Nov 15, 2016Nov 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton, our pro-science candidateThe political conventions have ended and the major political parties have their candidates. Republicans have Donald Trump and Mike Pence…Aug 1, 2016Aug 1, 2016
Why I donated bone marrow to a stranger and how you can tooI feel like I did something. I feel that I gave a young man a chance in his fight against leukemia. I was only a part of the process, but…Jun 18, 2016Jun 18, 2016
2015 was a year of ‘kill switches’ for engineered microbesIn January 2015, well-known synthetic biologist Jim Collins declared that it would be the “year of the kill switch” in synthetic biology…Mar 6, 2016Mar 6, 2016