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Adventures in peer review

The issue of inappropriate image manipulation in figures published in peer-reviewed journals has received much attention in the last few years. I often wonder whether this has led to more “ugly” results – which obviously have not been manipulated – … Continue reading

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Ahhh…they are 100-mm “style” dishes…

Biomedical research doesn’t require much beyond basic high school math…still, when I was a graduate student, I thought I could put these math skills to use by calculating the surface area of circular, “100-mm” tissue culture dishes. One would assume … Continue reading

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Welcome to my new WordPress site!

After struggling to use MediaWiki as a content management system for the last few years, setting up WordPress was a breeze…nice WYSIWYG content editor and easy to prepare a presentable layout in a few hours. I am a biomedical researcher … Continue reading

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