Cool youtube movies #1

Tired of everyday’s boring lab routine? Let’s change the channel and take a look at YouTube where really cool stuff can be found, such as …
… the Large Hadron Rap (referring to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider) whose backup-dancers, ha-ha, prefer anonymity, according to the credits (and I know why they prefer it!).
A more comical clip […]


The web’s most popular genes

Recently, your Mr. Gene was crouching in front of his good old computer when, all of a sudden, it crossed his mind to google the word, well, “gene”.
Having performed this, Mr. Gene proudly presents the ultimate Gene Ranking, powered by Google:
1) Placed 1st is Gene, Elsevier’s International Journal of Functional and Evolutionary Genomics. If you […]


The oldest DNA ever found?

Genes ordered at your friendly Mr Gene’s store are as fresh as can be (a point of honour, of course!). That freshness, however, isn’t really the case with the “dirt DNA” that has been digged up by Danish biologist Eske Willerslev.

Willerslev, the head of the “Ancient DNA and Evolution” lab, is a professor at the […]


Be a record holder (and a Nobel Price winner, too)!

How’s work going? For my share, experiments have been going awry for weeks (and still are) while my demanding lab taskmaster is becoming more and more bad-tempered (and so am I!).
Tons of failed experiments in mind, my research grant running out at lightning-speed and the next sensational blockbuster paper out of reach, I brainstormed about […]