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NCurse ResearchGATE, the largest scientific community site, where I used to manage the Masterblog, now announced its one millionth user which is a fantastic achievement. Congratulations to them! Read More
Jun 5, 2011

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NCurse I wanted to share this video before publishing the new posts this week. Enjoy! Read More
May 21, 2011

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NCurse Maia Weinstock thought it would be great to create the Lego forms of the most famous scientists, science bloggers, and science journalists who are also active online. The project is called Scitweeps because the scientists are identified by their Twitter feed. Read More
May 6, 2011

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NCurse Stanford University bioengineer Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his colleagues are developing “biotic games” where players control paramecia and other living microorganisms. The PacMan-like video games are the first in which a player’s actions influence the behavior of living microorganisms while the game is being played. Read More
Jan 26, 2011

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NCurse According to a new study in Nature Neuroscience, there are songs that can arouse feelings of euphoria and craving by endogenous dopamine release in the striatum. If music-induced emotional states can lead to dopamine release, as our findings indicate, it may begin to explain why musical experiences are so valued. Read More
Jan 17, 2011

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NCurse New York Times published an article about molecular animators, scientists who can visualize the microscopic segments of life in a professional way. If there is a Steven Spielberg of molecular animation, it is probably Drew Berry, a cell biologist who works for the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia. Read More
Nov 24, 2010

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NCurse Quertle is a free website for searching the biomedical literature using cutting-edge, semantic-driven text analytics. It’s easy – Quertle’s friendly interface makes it simple to search and refine results. Read More
Nov 3, 2010

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NCurse This is October again and the famous Ig Nobel Award winners were just announced before the real Nobel winners. Guess who took the Medicine category: Psychologists Simon Rietveld and Ilja van Beest at the University of Amsterdam share the award for discovering that breathing difficulties brought on by asthma can be alleviated by repeated rollercoaster [...] Read More
Oct 4, 2010

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NCurse Last year, I wrote about Science Magazine’s competition in which researchers could dance their research projects or PhDs. Now the finalists are announced. Read More
Sep 20, 2010

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NCurse If you remember the SETI project, you won’t be surprised that the Foldit project is a huge success. Foldit is an experimental video game about protein folding which helps solve problems that computers cannot solve that efficiently. Read More
Aug 10, 2010

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NCurse One of my favourite blogs, Spoonful of Medicine, just posted a great video which shows that mutations in E. coli bacteria can be tracked in real time. Read More
Aug 3, 2010

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NCurse Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge Group from the University of Southern California works on very interesting projects. If you have ever wondered what vocal performance migh look like under the MRI real time, here is a video: This video illustrates real-time MRI of vocal performance. Read More
Aug 2, 2010

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NCurse In the lab where I’m doing PhD in genetics had to purchase a lab management software in order to make these processes clear inside the lab. That’s why it’s a shame I only discovered Quartzy, a free lab management tool for life scientists, now. Read More
Jul 15, 2010

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