May 21st Brookhaven ready or not
In which for a change an assumption is confirmed.
Cell wall imaging
May 14th Benched
In which I regale the reader with accounts of the preparations needed for my next trip to the synchrotron.
In medias musho, Oct 16th
In which I write about flecks, possibly inspired by seeing Bela Fleck and a Flecktone (Victor Wooton).
Oct 9th From collection to analysis
In which the process of experimentation starts to move from the bench to the computer. Does this still count as “lab” work?
Sept 25th A quiet week
A short post, and I hope a sweet one…
Sept 18th: Mounting tension
With a set of new sections from Joe Hill rotating slowly on bench, and no obstacles looming, it was time to see what a fresh set of samples would do. On Monday, I moved them from ethanol to t-butanol. The sections sit in small glass vials, submerged in a few hundred micro-liters of liquid. Holding […]
Sept 11 The case of the missing data bar
A data bar has neither chocolate nor flour but is sweet all the same. A thousand of them vanished on my computer, making me full of sourness. But I am getting ahead of the story. This week’s adventure in science begins with my one hour on the scanning electron microscope. Now, one hour is not […]
March 6, To bleach or not bleach
A short post on the virtues or otherwise of using bleach
Sunday Feb 28, Glop-fact
In which new clues are revealed in the case of the curious glop.
Sunday Feb 21: Art or fact?
In which I puzzle over whether something was made by nature or by human hand.