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Friday bits and pieces: ebola, old software patches, microscopy and microbiomes

  Scammers are cashing in on the ebola scare. The news media is cashing in on the ebola scare. Politicians are cashing in on the ebola scare. Unfortunately, neither international healthcare nor biomedical research  are cashing in on the ebola scare.   I found the first software patch. Seems pretty robust.   Diet can influence certain autoimmune […]

Nobel Prize Quips at PDBe

I received this email today from Gary Battle at PDBe . Very cool:   Nobel Prize Quips: Explore the structure of B2AR bound to its G-protein. Today, Nobel Laureates Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka take center stage in Stockholm where they will receive their Nobel Prize Medals for their studies of G-protein–coupled receptors […]

IgNobel Slides

The IgNobel prizes have been announced last week. From Wikipedia: “The Ig Nobel Prizes are an American parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October for ten achievements that ‘first make people laugh, and then make them think.’ Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), they […]

Finally: a Nobel prize for the ribosome structure

This has been a topic of discussion since I was in grad school: when will the Nobel prize for the structure of the ribosome be finally awarded? Well, it finally has. Ada Yonath, Thomas Steitz and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the Nobel for work that has spanned three decades and an equal number of continents.   […]

2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

And the winners are…

Weekly poll: which category would you add to the Nobel prize?

Yup, it’s those two weeks again, when that prize is being announced.  Sadly, BsB probably will not get it this year. Might have something to so with there being no category for blogging. Prestige and controversy go hand in hand, mix in science and you have a concoction more explosive than the one Mr. Nobel […]