April 2013
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March 2013
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In Biology we have to make an analogy for Plant Cells using everyday things like factories or cities. Since I don’t go outside, I thought Tumblr was more of an “Everyday thing” for me. So far I have: Cell Wall: Log in Page. (Helps keep everything together) Cell Membrane: CAPTCHA while making your…
An interesting idea!
August 2012
4 posts
Introducing “Plant Cell Alumni”: Dr Paul Hunter! |...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology It is with great pleasure that I can announce a new category on this blog: Plant Cell Alumni! This series will feature interviews with people who at one point were active plant cell researchers, but are now doing something different. I hope to highlight the vast variety of possibilites open to plant scientists, no matter if they decided to change fields, to...
Scientists generate 281-gigapixel cell map using...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Electron microscopes can produce incredibly detailed and even 3D views of sub-cellular structures, but often at the cost of losing the bigger pictur… See on engadget.com
Get the protein rolling: How to build a plant cell...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology I am incredibly lucky in that our research group is not only tolerant of my crazy science outreach ideas, but whole-heartedly embraces and develops them. When we started thinking about activities for the “International Fascination of Plants Day“, our PhD student Alessandra told me this funny story. She had gone to bed and just before falling asleep suddenly...
New perspectives on the function of the Golgi...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology !| New perspectives on the function of the Golgi apparatus http://t.co/GSAxW18s #mammals #plants #science #biology… See on alphagalileo.org
July 2012
2 posts
How to bring a school Science Club into the lab –...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Working together with the Didcot Girls’ School Science Club was one of the best experiences I have had so far in my research career. Their enthusiasm and excitement was infectious and it forced me take a step back and look at my research with different eyes. All of them want to go to university and I am absolutely sure that each of them would be a great...
#plantscience – how to find the latest plant...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Would you like to know what’s currently going on in plant science and what research areas are out there? I am curating a list of plant scientists on Twi… See on plantcellbiology.com
June 2012
8 posts
The Tau Protein
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Tau is one of several types of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) which regulate the assembly and stability of microtubule networks. Although microtubule networks exist in all kinds of animal and plant cells, Tau is present only in neurons and predominantly localized in axons. This unique feature suggests that Tau may have neuron-specific functions. See on...
What the Supercool Arctic Ground Squirrel Teaches...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology During hibernation, the ground squirrel’s brain loses many vital neural connections, but it has evolved a way to recuperate. See on scientificamerican.com
Pansy Faces
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Visiting the many different flower shows whilst researching The Flora, I was struck by the way the pansies were displayed – they are arranged separately in trays, not as the usual bunch of flowers in a vase, but just the heads placed poking out of a board on a tray – why? I like to think that it really makes you look carefully at the difference in each...
So you want to do a science communication project?...
Yesterday I participated as facilitator in the Science Communication Training Day 2012 for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, which was organised by the Biochemical Society, Society of Experimental Biology and British Ecological Society. It was a brilliant day and Antonia Desmond wrote a lovely summary about the day for the BiochemSoc Blog. I won’t repeat this but rather comment on...
The Enormous Influence of Microscopic Marine...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology The Enormous Influence of Microscopic Marine Plants… See on aobblog.com
Tree tune tutorial!
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Have you ever wondered how to pen a piece of arboreal balladry? How to get under the skin of a 4,800 year old Californian bristlecone pine? Well now you can, with this handy tutorial, recorded with student of treesong Hayley Bennett from Geek Pop. See on thesoundoftheladies.com
Cosmic Art Glows With Fluorescent Bacteria
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology An artist has used bacteria to create glowing images of galaxies as well as portraits. See on livescience.com
May 2012
37 posts
Mitochondria can be inherited from both parents -...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology US researchers identify a man who inherited 90 per cent of his mDNA from his father - the finding promises to overturn accepted biological wisdom… See on newscientist.com
Run, aphid, run! | Plantcellbiology.com
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology I just stumbled across this nice video by Rothamsted Research. It’s used on their website to illustrate the research on genetically modified wheat by John … See on plantcellbiology.com
We have a duty to put our faith in science, not...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Will Hutton: Anti-GM campaigners would do well to remember that progress is dependent upon scientific research… See on guardian.co.uk
From #defendscience to #dontdestroyresearch –...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9scGtf5E3I A couple of weeks ago, Rothamsted researchers released an online appeal in which they were pleading to a gro… See on plantcellbiology.com
Non-invasive intracellullar 'thermometer' with...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Biologists have developed a technique to measure internal cell temperatures without altering their metabolism. This finding could be useful when distinguishing healthy cells from cancerous ones, as well as learning more about cellular processes. See on sciencedaily.com
10 Facts About Cells
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Cells are the fundamental units of life. Whether they be unicellular or multicellular life forms, all living organisms are composed of and depend on cells to function normally. See on 3dsciencepics.com
GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe: False claims that...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology “In short, Aris and Leblanc report results which are mechanistically implausible because protein in the diet rarely enter the body as intact molecules, and which which are highly likely to just represent low-level noise in their complicated assay system. They should have at least explicitly recognised the limitations of their assay in their paper and...
What to do with the plant vandals?
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Just a few more days until the threatened destruction of a field trial of GM wheat in England. At this point it’s not certain if the demonstration will include vandalism, but should it, what happens next? My fantasy is to take the vandals (and the people who encourage them, like her http://tinyurl.com/83v6me2) to a quiet place for four years. During...
Kinesin Molecular Motors Can Exhibit Spiral Motion
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Kinesins, molecular motors key to cellular transport, can exhibit spiral motion, challenging assumptions that kinesins move only on straight paths. See on ts-si.org
New Microscope Imaged Flow of Individual Blood...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same information as a traditional blood test in real-time, simply by shining a light through the skin. This optical instrument, no bigger than a breadbox, is...
The Question Game | Plantcellbiology.com
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology What happens when you ask a bunch of 14 year old girls to each write a question on a piece of paper anonymously and put it in the middle of the table for a… See on plantcellbiology.com
Happy Fascination of Plants Day! |...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Today is the first ever Fascination of Plants Day and I am very excited, as my Twitter friends will be able to testify (tweet ALL the plants!). All over the world there will be plant-related activities today, in Botanic Gardens, universities and research institutes. Our group will be at Oxford Botanic Garden from 10-7 pm and show people what plant parts...
Invasion of the Next Generation |...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Tomorrow - or rather today by the time I finished writing this - I will be opening my bench and my blog to a small group of very enthusiastic 14-15 year … See on plantcellbiology.com
Be fascinated by all the plants! - All the things... →
Motivating Students to Learn in a High School...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Students equate plant biology, for the most part, to celery—bland and unappetizing. Dab some peanut butter and raisins on that celery, and though you may run the risk of sounding very corny, the students will have at least remembered why that celery was green. See on allvoices.com
As Many Exceptions As Rules: It’s A Plant World,...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Life on Earth is easy. It can be boiled down to three sentences. “The mitochondria and the chloroplasts are, in a fundamental sense, the most important things on Earth. Between them, they produce oxygen and arrange for its use. In effect, they run the place.” Lewis Thomas wrote this in his award winning book, The Lives Of The Cell: Notes Of A Biology Watcher,...
Living Photography | Oscillator, Scientific...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Plants don’t always seem particularly charismatic, but hidden from us in their slow-motion and chemical activities are incredible mechanisms that sense and respond to the world … See on blogs.scientificamerican.com
Statistical organelle dissection of Arabidopsis...
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To comprehensively grasp cell biological events in plant stomatal movement, we have captured microscopic images of guard cells with various organelles markers.
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How-To: Operate a Homemade Scanning...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology http://youtu.be/zksVZCJajCI When we last checked in on Ben Krasnow’s homemade SEM, he had just achieved his first successful image with the device. See on blog.makezine.com
The Secret Lives of Chloroplasts - visualised with...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology “A new study from the University of Guelph has overturned a century of dogma by suggesting that chloroplasts may live as independently from one another as they do from the plant cells that host them.” See on tylerirving.ca
Functional Biology of Plants | Facebook
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Book by Martin Hodson (Oxford Brookes Univ.) and John Bryant (University of Exeter) - nice Facebook page with lots of plant links. See on facebook.com
Flying microscope build seems way too nice for a...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology This flying microscope is a tool which [Darrell Taylor] can be very proud of. He wanted to have an inspection microscope for working with surface mount projects. See on hackaday.com
A Two-Legged Molecule
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology A small molecule able to move independently along a track has been developed by researchers at the University of Edinburgh. See on materialsviews.com
Pixel Whisk: Succulent Cupcakes
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Best cupcakes EVER! See on pixel-whisk.com
Velcro under a microscope
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In space no one can see you gleam – unless you use...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Will humans one day live on other planets than on Earth? I don’t know the answer to that. But I know that if humans attempt to settle on extraterrestrial land, we will want to take plants with us to provide us with food and make our air breathable See on plantcellbiology.com
Six Foot Tall Microscope
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology In which I construct a six foot tall microscope, and so can you! See on props.eric-hart.com
How to preserve plant structures with cotton and a...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Flowers and leaves are made up of thousands of tiny little blocks we call plant cells. Those cells have a very strong, rigid wall that keeps all of the contents inside. Inside each of the building blocks are chemicals called … See on elementalblogging.com
World’s First Scanning Electron Microscope That...
See on Scoop.it - Plant Cell Biology Though producing 3D images with an electron microscope isn’t the newest of the new, being able to display the 3D images in real time is, which is why it’s pretty neat that a Japanese research group has created an electron microscope that does just… See on geekosystem.com
