Science.tv launched a blog

I haven’t done any strict fact checking but as far as I know science.tv‘s new blog, called simply Science.tv Blog is the first web log launched by a science video sharing site in order to communicate and explore. (Usually I am accustomed to the other way in the world of online video: blog first, vlog…

Michael Rose, evolutionary SENS and aging as a loss of adaptation (slides)

Embedded on the slideshow below 9 slides of Michael Rose‘s presentation called Slowing and then stopping aging on the SENS3 conference on the 9th of September. (Photos made by me with the iPhone.) Rose’s argument was: Aubrey de Grey’s original SENS proposal is based on the non-evolutionary assumption that aging is a process of accumulating…

For benchwork scientists, it’s always Christmas time: unpacking kits and gifts

One particular advantage of being an experimental scientist is that you are getting nicely packed gifts all the time as you are constantly ordering the kits and material that you need for you experiments. For instance I’ve just got this cute, childishly designed Micro BCA Protein Assay Kit developed for measuring protein concentration in the…