Category Archives: cool science

Unfortunate lack of links in the NY Times

By Michael Eisen | May 19, 2009

I get very frustrated every time I see an article about a PLoS article in the popular press that doesn’t include a link to the article. One of our motivations for starting PLoS was to give the public access to the primary research literature, and readers of popular news accounts of one of our articles [...]

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Regulatin’ Genes

By Michael Eisen | March 9, 2009

Via John Tierney, this video about development is awesome:

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Was Jesus Haploid or Diploid?

By Michael Eisen | October 14, 2008

A study published last week in the Journal of Fish Biology confirmed that an earlier report of parthanogenesis in sharks was not a fluke. Chapman DD et al. (2008). Parthenogenesis in a large-bodied requiem shark, the blacktip Carcharhinus limbatus. J. Fish Biol. 73(6):1473-1477. (No link – I only link to open access articles). This is [...]

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A Nobel for GFP

By Michael Eisen | October 8, 2008

Congrats to Roger Tsien for winning a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry. Tsien was honored for unraveling the mechanisms of green fluorescent protein (GFP), and more importantly for developing a dizzying array of GFP variants that work more efficiently and emit different colors of light. It’s particularly exciting to see scientists rewarded [...]

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