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The aggregation of amyloid protein fibrils is involved in diseases such as amyloidosis and even Alzheimer’s. A group of Japanese scientists has explored the use of free…
Researchers’ struggle with academic writing is a well-recognized problem in academia and research shows that lack of time and stress or anxiety are the root cause of the…
Writing to a journal can be stressful for authors. This article gives some useful tips for you to communicate with your journal effectively.
On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which had protected a woman’s right to have an abortion, and allowed individual states…
My postdoc hadn’t worked out. The first sign that things were going wrong came before my official start date, but it wasn’t until approximately 2 months into the postdoc…
In this blogpost, we’ll break down Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in simple terms, explore its applications in biomedical research, discuss its advantages and…
Complex networks are ubiquitous in the real world, from artificial to purely natural ones, and they exhibit very similar geometric properties. Algorithms based on…
This story is an extract from an interview with Nobel Laureate Sir Tim Hunt, where he talks about how he missed an important step in his research and went on to make a…
I left academia about a year ago and started working in biotech, selling analytical equipment to researchers. It was a painful process, and at first I didn’t really want…
The interaction between ‘transfer RNAs’ and the enzymes that help them in protein synthesis is a key area of interest to understand the evolution of the genetic code…