How Do Bacteria Make Decisions?

Yes. You read the title correctly.

On Smell And The Future Of Science

A talk with Luca Turin

Code reuse and plagiarism

Gautham’s been doing a bunch of refactoring of our existing codebase for spot counting, in particular using a lot of object oriented design strategies. One of the primary goals is code reuse, which is commonly accepted as A Good Thing in programming. On the other hand, a student in…

The cost of biomedical papers

Scientific papers cost more than you probably think

The science in your average biomedical research paper costs between $300-$500 thousand dollars to produce. I don’t know about you, but those numbers made my eyeballs…

Reality-based science

Don’t believe everything you read

Most of the published biomedical research literature is wrong. It’s a perhaps less than well known fact, but it is a fact nonetheless: estimates from industry are that around 75%+ of published results are…

The over-mathification of Wikipedia

Help, I don’t have a PhD in math!

Wikipedia is an amazing resource. Truly amazing. Aside from personal interests, I think I use it at least several times a day for work-related science information. For biology, it’s…

What’s the point of figure legends?

Figure legends are the (useless) fine print of scientific papers

Figures in journals have figure legends. But what’s the point of these figure legends? In my mind, there is little point. At best…

New Meaning to the Term “Gut Feeling”

Gut bacteria and the brain