Category: How stuff works

Mice applications

I know that quite a number of my readers not actually coming from science are not overly enthusiastic about animal experiments. I probably had a couple of discussions before about this subject and it very often leads to a dead end since most people stil… more »
by Charles Betz
07/29/09. 12:10:23 pm. 467 words, 1842 views. Categories: How stuff works ,

Papers

Judging from the low number of posts on this blog, you'll probably guess that scientists can be quite busy, especially if they're working in a competitive field. One of the reasons you'll even end up having very little time/motivation to write left afte… more »
by Charles Betz
07/26/09. 10:16:47 pm. 1589 words, 1015 views. Categories: How stuff works , 3 comments »

Risk vs hype

Recommended reading! more »
by Charles Betz
05/05/09. 11:16:37 am. 2 words, 713 views. Categories: How stuff works ,

Red leaves in autumn

Interesting post for all of you science fun facts & theory fans. more »
by Charles Betz
04/20/09. 03:05:37 pm. 12 words, 1524 views. Categories: Science News, How stuff works ,

HOX is the word

Regulatin' Genes more »
by Charles Betz
04/02/09. 08:57:51 am. 2 words, 863 views. Categories: How stuff works , 4 comments »

Cancer 101

Very well written introductory article on cancer. Cancer, Science more »
by Charles Betz
09/17/08. 03:22:33 pm. 9 words, 618 views. Categories: How stuff works ,

Placebos...

One of the most amazing effects in medicine! Listen to the BBC program! more »
by Charles Betz
09/02/08. 08:59:21 am. 13 words, 492 views. Categories: How stuff works ,

Understanding improbability

Watch this movie and understand how improbable events during evolution can happen nevertheless. Yes, it is about horse racing, never mind! [gvid]-446832022760497689[/gvid] Via more »
by Charles Betz
06/17/08. 03:54:03 pm. 24 words, 412 views. Categories: How stuff works ,

No Nukes!

As you may have fetched from a couple of posts or facebook statuses, I'm doing some radioactive labelling experiments. As most of you will probably never have the chance (?) of working with radioactivity, I'm going to explain a few basics about the proc… more »
by Charles Betz
03/25/08. 10:24:33 pm. 753 words, 1608 views. Categories: How stuff works ,

My favourite proteins

There are many proteins resp. genes with extremely clever, funny, stupid or simply just weird names. As a scientist you come across them every so often, but rarely do you remember them when trying to write a blog post about the thing. So I got some insp… more »
by Charles Betz
03/17/08. 05:20:31 pm. 315 words, 780 views. Categories: How stuff works , 4 comments »

These Are the People at Your Departmental Seminar

If you're a scientist and go regularly to your seminars you will probably understand this post. If not, you may just enjoy it as well. RPM at Evolgen posted an article about the different types of people you'll find sitting in these talks... It's absolu… more »
by Charles Betz
02/22/08. 06:41:41 pm. 691 words, 683 views. Categories: How stuff works , 1 comment »