2022

Time to mind the whys and wherefores

Tobias Baskin

            Last time, I regaled you with a story of cutting sections of roots embedded in paraffin. Cutting sections is the kind of obsessive handiwork that made me happy to become a scientist and still makes me happy to be one. I enjoyed getting roots into molten wax and I enjoyed blogging about doing that and […]

Sound a trumpet!

Tobias Baskin

            Trumpets? I don’t even hear bagpipes. Can I conjure up a kazoo to herald the return of Lab Fab? My last post was nearly two years ago, not long after the covid curtains closed. I stopped lab-fabbing because I stopped doing experiments. Over the long interval, I had writing projects. I wrote a paper that presented […]