The new image
Caption: Spectral karyotype of a polyploid human tumor cell
Authors: Carrie Viars, Steve Goodison, and George McNamara
See this protocol for more information on SKY hybridization.
The new featured article
Recently, I went to a talk on patents in Second Nature by Sue Scott. An interesting insight from this talk was that it is not always in a company’s interests to file a patent. For example, if Coca-cola had patented their recipe for Coke, they would not have been able to keep it a secret!
The newly featured protocol is for using Scirus to search these very mysterious legal documents for scientific information.
The new Network Protocols
This week, I would like to highlight a Network Protocol where a question has been asked and, recently, answered using the commenting functionality.
Ask Aunty Bron
What is this question-in-a-cloud thing all about?
On our homepage, this box links to our Discussion Forum on the Nature Network. This is a good place to ask all sorts of methods-related questions like:
“What is the best method to achieve…?”
“I have been doing ‘this method’, but getting unexpected results. Can anybody help?”
If you are the technical-guru in your lab, perhaps you would like to check it out to see if you have any useful tips that you can give. You don’t even need to wait for a question, you could share your tip (perhaps with a photo) by joining up and creating a new post.
For those of you who are more like me, your story might go something more like this: “You really should not try to attach an Ehrlenmeyer flask to a rotavap. I tried it and it imploded…”