I got my Ph.D. in radiation biology in 2001 and slaved at the bench until about a year ago, when I decided to pursue medical/science writing. I find it very fulfilling in general, although I do have a few annoyances (but doesn’t everyone!). Just wondering if there are any other science writers out there who’d like to discuss experiences, career tips, etc – I would love to hear from you. I’d be willing to start a group for us if there are enough willing participants….

Jen

I will be really thankful if anybody solve my problems regarding comet assay.
thanks

just looking around, any information here for supporters of renewable energy sources?
Like info on any EU support offered for development of new water powerplants for example?

thanks

Sami

kotisivu toteutusta
website development

All I hear is talk talk and talk, don’t do this and don’t do that , save the planet , save our wildlife – How about using the funds and asking for sponsors to start cloning tigers and other animals who are on the verge of extinction and the rare birds that our great great grand children will only be able to read and see in books and movies?
Would love to have some feedback from like minded readers,Thanks

last night I surfed the web looking for interesting papers on transplantation immunology. I remember seeing an article titled “is immunosuppression really making a difference in transplantation?” or something similar. I didn’t look at it or bookmark it – and now that I want to read it, I cannot find it anywhere.

Did anybody here come across that article by any chance? I’m not sure where I saw it (might have been on nature.com).

Many thanks
Flo

a friend of mine has found this jawbone, it doesn’t look like anything that any of us has ever seen before and we were wondering how to get it identified?

the penny is a reference for size. i hope the image is not to large, but i wanted to make sure there was enough detail

anybody know what kind of creature it may have come from, or a link to a site/person that would be able to help

tia

http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/mudbilly/jawbone/

This is Tarun Gupta, a student of MSc Human Genomics at National Centre for Human Genome Studies and Research.

My present course will train me in a diverse array of techniques in Genomics, particularly, recombinant DNA technology, but still I’ll have little practical exposure to some of the sophisticated techniques for which we do not have any dedicated facility. That way, I am bound to miss many important things, akin to Comparative genomic hybridization, Microarrays etc. that could otherwise help me contrive my future research endeavors in a better & more effective way.

I am likely to work on Somatic Hypermutations for my dissertation. So before that, I am seeking for a summer training position for getting a first hand experience of some of the relevant techniques. I would really appreciate if any one could guide me in that direction.

Many Thanks & Kind Regards,
Tarun Gupta
—
MSc Human Genomics
National Centre for Human Genome Studies and Research
Panjab University
Chandigarh-India

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Firstly, I need to apologise for not being a scientist, just a member of Joe Public who would like to be pointed in the right direction with a scientific enquiry. I also don’t know if this question should be published elsewhere on this network but thought if I put it here first then it can be shot down in flames with minimal loss of life!

So, please be gentle – I’m worried about those tags, never done those before – but I think the question is of interest.

Agrocybe rivulosa is a fungus. It is a basidiomycete with ‘mushroom-type’ fruiting bodies. It was first described in 2003, not as a result of splitting, or raising a variety or form or subspecies to species level, but as a completely new thing. It is currently exploding all over a woodchip pile near you and has been doing so all year since May. It is closely related to Agrocybe cylindracea which is a good, edible species which is cultivated commercially as food and for medicinal purposes.

As far as I know, there is no work being done on the toxicity of A.rivulosa; whether or not it is edible; whether or not it can be cultivated commercially.

Does anyone here know differently? And is anyone here interested in pursuing this line of research? Or, if I’m barking up the wrong tree, can you point me in the direction of the right tree?

Thanks for reading, and all help that anyone can give me will be most gratefully received.

Keir Mottram

How are you guys?

Go to your personal profile, click ‘edit profile’ and tick the box where it says ‘allow other members to contact you’.

(We decided to make it an ‘opt in’ system, to protect the privacy of people who don’t want to be contacted directly.)

Try it now, and feel free to contact me if you want to test it out.

I noted the new group-based web feed. Cheers for that!

However, I am subscribed to several groups, and would much prefer one feed to cover them all. I know I can group them via YahooPipes or any RSS aggregator, but that would require me to update that whenever I (un)subscribe to a group.

Is there a personalized RSS feed for the groups I am subscribed to? Alternatively, is there a OPML file with the RSS feeds of the groups I am subscribed to?

Egon

It’s my 1st experience to participate in forum.:) It’s very interesting to read your ideas and comments. Really, the Internet is something!

Well, could I ask you for advice or ideas here?

My friend from Russia asked me for help. (My native language is Russian too, by the way).
They are going to run a forum in Siberia and Mongolia with a mission to attract people’s attention to the problem of unique birds migrating in Central Asia.
They want more people to join them in the event and they have limit of time (August 1st) for people to get the information.
My advice was to use the Internet resources and join to forums with people interested in nature problems. Was I right?
Do you think, could we find people interested in the project this way?

Sincerely

Have anybody think on viral gene devlopment and is dominating the pathology field?

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