Lousy DNA analysis fools German police
The mysterious phantom killer the German police was searching after for years has finally been identified: it is a cotton swab. The photo below shows the wrongdoer after its arrest by a police investigator.
The search was extensive and sometimes extremely dangerous as you can see on this top secret snapshot taken by accident in 2004 […]
The most useful genome for committing a crime
What is the optimal qualification to get out of a tight spot after you have committed a crime? Coolness? Unscrupulousness? Brutality? Exceptional intelligence? Or stupid constables (LOL)?
The unexpected answer is that the optimal qualification for a thug to get away without punishment is to have the adequate, well, genome. No, dude, I am not speaking […]
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 […]
