I was reading some science news, as I am prone to do, and came across this article which just so happens to deal with what we're learning about in class right now--cell organelles and their function. The organelle this particular blog post features is the lysosome. Need to digest a food particle? [...]
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As we enter cold and flu season, I thought I'd share this neat little web nugget with you all: Google Flu Trends. Now how amazing is this? Just when you thought Google could do it all...it pretty much DOES. In the past, state and local health departments have relied on data [...]
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Have you ever conducted an experiment that produced results that may not have turned out the way you wanted them to? Think about the things in your experimental environment that may have contributed to your "off" results. Would you ever suspect the lab equipment you use as the source of your error?
Well, scientists [...]
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A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way
We've all heard the song "A Spoonful of Sugar" from the movie "Mary Poppins." Now replace the word "medicine" with "E. coli" and you've got an entirely [...]
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